Pars Today

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the positions taken by Washington officials reveal that the US wishes for Tehran's defiance of the 2015 nuclear deal to find a ground to implement their warmongering policies.

"Warmongers (in the US) confess they're more worried that we abide by the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) than violate it. No spin will mask this," Zarif wrote on his twitter page on Tuesday.

He called on the American rulers to abide by the nuclear deal, saying, "The US should try to comply — just like us."

US President Donald Trump refused to certify the 2015 international nuclear agreement between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany, and warned that he might ultimately terminate it, in defiance of the UN and undermining a landmark victory of multilateral diplomacy.

Trump said he would choose not to certify that Tehran is complying with the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, while the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has eight times confirmed Tehran's compliance.

While Trump did not pull Washington out of the nuclear deal, he gave the US Congress 60 days to decide whether to re-impose economic sanctions against Tehran that were lifted under the pact.

After Trump's comments, European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini underlined that the US president is not in a position to decertify JCPOA.

EA