Signatories' commitment key to JCPOA implementation

Supreme Leader’s Representative and Secretary for Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani said on Tuesday that continued JCPOA implementation depends on the parties' carrying out their duties and avoiding to bring any excuse leading to counter measures.

Shamkhani made the remarks in a meeting with visiting French Foreign Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, in Tehran on Tuesday.

In the meeting, Shamkhani welcomed expansion of political and economic cooperation between the two countries after implementation of the JCPOA and called for removal of remaining issues, mainly in the banking sector.

Referring to various terrorist operations in France, that have claimed lives of innocent civilians, Shamkhani called for taking timely action in dealing with terrorism.

Adopting double-standards in fight against terrorism and classifying terrorists into good and bad will lead to escalation of violence and increase in number of crimes, Shamkhani said.

All should take common and practical steps to cut terrorists' financial, human, media and weaponry resources round the globe, he said.

The criminal acts of the MKO and their direct cooperation with former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, during eight years of imposed war have never been removed from the memory of the Iranian nation and any support to the terrorist grouplet will bear unfriendly messages for the Islamic Republic of Iran, Shamkhani said.

Diplomacy and dialogue should be used as unavoidable means in dealing with regional crisis, he said.

Recent political achievements in Syria had roots in escalation and continued activities of a legal government in the country, he said.

Raising issues such as safe haven will lead to the country’s disintegration and in fact bolsters terrorism and continued crisis in the region, he said.

Lauding the act of French government in setting up Paris conference to condemn Zionist’s construction of Jewish settlements and putting an end to Gaza siege, he said limiting and confronting the occupation and crimes of the Zionist regime requires an international pressure and Europe should act on its responsibility through dispatch of clear and strong messages, he said.

Experiences gained in recent decades indicate that the only way to restore calm and tranquility to the occupied Palestine is awarding legal and real rights of Palestinian people, he said.

Expressing concern over military action and carnage of innocent people in Yemen by Saudi army, he sharply criticized the silence of European countries and permanent members of the United Nations Security Council in dealing with such issues.

Some European countries through continued sales of arms to Saudi Arabia and remaining indifferent towards carnage of innocent people in Yemen and destruction of the country’s infrastructures in fact have a share in the unprecedented crimes, committed by Saudi Arabia in the poor country, he said.

French foreign minister said for his part that after implementation of the JCPOA, prospects of political and economic cooperation between Iran and France is very promising.

Exchange of visits between the two sides' officials leave positive impacts in broadening of economic relations and cooperation, he said.

Thanking Iran for its very active role in sound implementation of the JCOPA, the French minister said the path will undoubtedly meet both sides' interests in political and economic fields.
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