Iran to Keep Reducing JCPOA Commitments If Demands Not Met: Spokesman

October, 06, 2019 - 15:00
Nuclear news

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Spokesperson for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi warned that Tehran will continue to scale back its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal should the other signatories fail to fulfill their obligations.

In an address to the opening of a course on nuclear rights, held in Tehran on Saturday, Kamalvandi said Iran’s decision to reduce commitments to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was made after a year of “strategic patience” in the wake of the US administration’s unilateral withdrawal from the accord.

He also said that Iran would be ready to resume honoring the nuclear deal in its entirety as soon as the other parties do the same, warning that, otherwise, Tehran will continue to reduce commitments to the JCPOA.

His comments came a few days after Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said Iran will continue to scale back the JCPOA commitments until it gets the desirable results.

“Reduction of the nuclear commitments, which is a responsibility of the Atomic Energy Organization (of Iran), must continue with full seriousness and in a precise and comprehensive manner, as announced by the administration, until it achieves the appropriate result, and it will definitely yield results,” the Leader said on Wednesday.

In May 2018, US President Donald Trump pulled his country out of the JCPOA.

Iran and the remaining parties launched talks to save the JCPOA after the US withdrawal, but the three EU parties to the deal (France, Britain, and Germany) have failed to ensure Iran’s economic interests.

The EU’s inaction forced Tehran to stop honoring certain commitments to the nuclear deal, including a rise in the stockpile of enriched uranium.

Iran maintains that the new measures are not designed to harm the JCPOA but to save the accord by creating a balance in the commitments.