MPs urge end to JCPOA implementation

A group of lawmakers have called on President Hassan Rouhani to stop implementing a nuclear agreement if the US continues violating the accord and maintains its hostile policies.

As many as 102 legislators on Monday urged President Rouhani to set a deadline for reconsidering Iran’s voluntary implementation of nuclear-related measures under the agreement, Press TV reported.

They asked the government to resume all nuclear activities under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in case the US refuses to return some $2 billion recently taken away from frozen Iranian assets.

They accused the US administration of backpedaling on the June 2015 agreement, sabotaging the deal and blackmailing over the removal of sanctions.

The lawmakers asked the government to respond in kind, with regard to the seizure of Iran's frozen assets by the US.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaberi- Ansari said Monday the results of legal investigations conducted by a special committee on the appropriation of Iranian assets have been presented to the country’s Supreme National Security Council.

“The results of the committee’s investigations have been presented to the president, and will be brought up today in the Supreme National Security Council,” Jaberi- Ansari said during his weekly press briefing.

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