New US admin inclined to rejoin JCPOA: Iranian spokesman

The next US administration appears to be willing to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal and end the economic terrorism against Iran, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Sa'eed Khatibzadeh said.

According to Tasnim news agency, speaking at a weekly press conference on Monday, Khatibzadeh said a series of statements have been heard about the new US administration’s inclination to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and end the economic terrorism against the Iranian nation.

About the Iranian Parliament's bill on strategic action for lifting of the sanctions, he said the Ministry will definitely carry out the new law if it comes into force.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has already made it clear that the parliamentary decisions and Tehran’s reduced commitment to the JCPOA are reversible, provided that the other parties resume honoring their commitments, Khatibzadeh added.

The spokesperson also emphasized that Iran would by no means renegotiate a deal that has been already agreed upon.

Joe Biden who projected by the US media as the winner of the 2020 presidential election pledged in his campaign that he would return the United States to the JCPOA if Iran “returns to strict compliance” with the agreement.

The US returned its sanctions against Iran in 2018 after leaving a historic 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and other countries, namely the UK, France, Russia, and China plus Germany. Washington then returned the sanctions that the deal had lifted and began scaring others into toeing the sanction line.

The US’s measures came, although the deal that is officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), has been ratified in the form of a United Nations Security Council resolution. The actions also marked a great stride towards unilateralism given its sheer violation of the JCPOA’s multi-party nature.

After the US’s departure from the JCPOA, the Islamic Republic began adopting gradual nuclear countermeasures to retaliate for the US and others’ non-commitment to the nuclear agreement.

Tehran said in January it was suspending its obligations under the deal and would abandon restrictions on uranium enrichment and other activities unless the sanctions were lifted.

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