(REUTERS): Iran today (Friday) has reiterated that it will “immediately reverse” its actions, which contradict a 2015 nuclear agreement, once the United States sanctions are lifted.
“When sanctions are lifted, we will then immediately reverse all remedial measures. Simple,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a post on Twitter.
In apparent moves to tamp down tensions with a bitter rival, the Biden administration on February 18 said that it was prepared to meet with Iran over its nuclear program that former U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned in 2018 before reimposing the crippling penalties on Tehran.
US acknowledged Pompeo’s claims re Res. 2231 had no legal validity.
We agree.
In compliance w/ 2231:
US unconditionally & effectively lift all sanctions imposed, re-imposed or re-labeled by Trump.
We will then immediately reverse all remedial measures.
Simple: #CommitActMeet
— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) February 19, 2021
Earlier on Thursday, Zarif had tweeted that Iran’s “remedial measures” were in response to violations of the accord by the US, Britain, France and Germany. Other signatories to the 2015 deal were China and Russia. Breaches of the deal by Iran began in 2019, about a year after Trump withdrew from it.
Tehran has set a February 23 deadline for Washington to begin reversing sanctions, otherwise, it says, it will take its biggest step yet to breach the deal — banning short-notice inspections by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Britain, France, Germany, and the United States called on Iran to refrain from that step and repeated their concerns over recent actions by Tehran to produce uranium enriched up to 20% and uranium metal.
