Iran prioritizes full implementation of nuclear deal: Deputy FM

“If the other party tries to act in a way to deny Iran's interests, the balance is going to be disturbed,” Majid Takht-e-Ravanchi said on the sidelines of a meeting on Tuesday.

“Iran is not interested to take that direction, but the country remains to have its plans though it hopes not to reach that stage,” Takht-e-Ravanchi said.

“Sure enough, Iran’s preference is the continuation of the nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,” he said.

“Tehran has fulfilled its JCPOA commitments and reports by the International Atomic Energy Agency all support this argument,” the deputy foreign minister said.

“But as Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif once said, at least Americans and some European countries have not been generous enough to fulfill their commitments,” Takht-e-Ravanchi said.

He said that violation of the JCPOA has a definite meaning, and in case there is a flagrant breach of the nuclear deal, there are ways to address the problem.

“If it is assumed that no violation of the deal is taking place, and the parties remain to be committed to its implementation, there is not going to be such concept as meticulous implementation of the JCPOA.

“The only adjective used in the text of the JCPOA, regarding its implementation, is successful implementation of the deal,” he said.

“In case there is no successful implementation, that is an unsuccessful implementation of the deal, we are going to move towards violation of the JCPOA,” the foreign ministry official said.

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