US vows to change course on JCPOA: President Rouhani

President Hassan Rouhani says the United States has promised to change the way it is implementing last year’s nuclear agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries.

According to Press TV, speaking to reporters upon his arrival in Tehran from New York on Friday, President Rouhani added that the ministerial meeting of a commission established to monitor the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) confirmed that the US is not complying with the nuclear agreement.

“The Joint Commission verified the Islamic Republic of Iran’s stance and did not see the US conduct as consistent with the JCPOA,” the Iranian president said.

“In the ministerial meeting of the Joint Commission on the implementations of the JCPOA, all [sides] told the US what it is conducting is not consistent with the JCPOA and the US promised to rectify this trend,” he added.

The President said the Islamic Republic has the right to make use of the opportunity created after the nuclear agreement’s implementation and “seriously challenge any possible breach.”

President Rouhani was in New York to deliver a speech at the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

On the sidelines of the event, he held talks with senior officials including the prime ministers of Italy, Britain, Norway, Sweden, Iraq, Pakistan, Japan and Greece and the presidents of France, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Switzerland and Turkey. He also sat down with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

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