Iran will take 'legal, practical' steps against US revocation of sanctions waivers
Iran has roundly condemned the United States’ latest decision to end the sanctions waivers in a landmark nuclear deal signed between the Islamic Republic and world powers in 2015, vowing to take "necessary practical and legal" steps to counter the negative impacts of the move.
According to Press TV, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi on Saturday said the US move to end the sanctions waivers for international nuclear cooperation with the Islamic Republic is a blatant violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, which endorses the nuclear deal -- officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) -- and the UN Charter.
He said that the Islamic Republic of Iran will be closely monitoring the technical and political impacts of this move and “will take the necessary practical and legal steps if it adversely impacts Iran’s nuclear rights recognized in international documents and the letter of the JCPOA," he added.
"This move ignores the Islamic Republic of Iran’s inherent rights and disrupts international public order," the Iranian spokesperson pointed out.
Hawkish US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that Washington had ended the last remaining sanctions waivers in the JCPOA.
Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi said on Thursday that the US has destroyed the last means of retention of the JCPOA by ending waivers for sanctions prohibiting nuclear cooperation with Tehran.
In May 2018, US President Donald Trump took an illegal and unilateral decision to end Washington’s participation in the nuclear deal and re-impose the sanctions that the agreement had lifted, in defiance of the fact that the accord has been endorsed by UNSC Resolution 2231.
France, Germany and Britain -- the three European signatories to the JCPOA -- censured the United States for ending the last remaining sanctions waivers in the deal.
"We deeply regret the US decision to end the three waivers," the three European countries said in a joint statement on Saturday.
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