Zarif Stresses Iran Will Work to Sustain Nuclear Deal
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said his top priority is to ensure that the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six other countries will stand.
Speaking in a televised interview on Sunday night, Zarif said the ministry under his watch would work first and foremost to keep the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA] in place.
"Priority number one of the diplomatic apparatus will be to sustain the JCPOA and to prevent America's deal-breaching," he said.
"We must not allow America to execute or violate the deal at Iran's cost."
Zarif further made clear that the JCPOA had been built on distrust and envisaged the necessary rules to deal with non-performance by parties.
Earlier in the day, the Iranian diplomat received a favorable vote of confidence at the Iranian Parliament to work as foreign minister in President Hassan Rouhani's second cabinet.
During a final debate at the Parliament, President Rouhani, who was in attendance to defend his cabinet picks, stressed the preservation of the JCPOA.
The JCPOA, a major foreign policy achievement of President Rouhani's first term, was finalized between the Islamic Republic on the one side and the United States, the UK, France, Russia, China, and Germany on the other in July 2015.
Zarif was Iran's chief negotiator in the multilateral talks that culminated in the deal.
When it started being implemented some six months after conclusion, the deal terminated all nuclear-related sanctions against Iran in return for certain measures by the Islamic Republic to limit its nuclear program.
But the new US administration has been unhappy with the deal, which was negotiated under the administration of former president Barack Obama. The new White House occupant has attempted to undo every one of Obama's major policy achievements.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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