Iran accepts no conditions imposed on nuclear agreement: Velayati

A senior Iranian official says the Islamic Republic will not accept European countries’ call for the attachment of conditions to the historic nuclear agreement signed between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries more than two years ago.

“Saying that they [the Europeans] endorse the JCPOA (nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) but should negotiate on regional issues and Iran's missile program is to make the JCPOA conditional, and this is not acceptable to us at all,” Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, told reporters on Tuesday.

“The JCPOA has no condition and must be upheld according to what has been agreed by Iran and the P5+1 countries,” he added.

The senior Iranian official urged European parties to the nuclear deal to exercise more care in their remarks.

Further in his remarks, Velayati pointed to Iran’s stance on the US move to impose new sanctions on the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and said the US president and Congress have so far failed to observe the JCPOA.

“They are playing a political game,” the Leader’s aide pointed out.

He described the IRGC as the symbol of the Iranian nation’s resistance and said, “Any foreign official who speak against the IRGC, has in fact spoken against the Iranian people.” In his latest anti-Iran speech, Trump announced sanctions on the IRGC, which he accused of destabilizing the Middle East and threatening American interests in the region.

EA