Norway Urges Iran to Return to Compliance with JCPOA
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Marie Eriksen Soreide urged Iran to return to full commitment to the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.
In a Twitter post on Monday, the Norwegian diplomat appreciated the dialogue with Islamic Republic of Iran on bilateral, regional and multilateral issues during a “good discussion” with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Without referring to the US’s unlawful withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), she urged Iran to return to full compliance with the nuclear deal.
Zarif said last week that Tehran would “immediately” reverse its remedial measures as soon as the US resumes honoring the JCPOA.
Addressing a group of Iran’s Air Force commanders on Sunday, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei also made it crystal clear for the US and the three European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal that Iran’s return to its JCPOA commitments will depend on the full and practical removal of the American sanctions.
The Leader noted that is the definite policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran that is agreed upon by all authorities, emphasizing that Tehran will not back off from this policy.
Former US president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from Iran’s nuclear deal in 2018. Under the deal, Tehran had agreed to limit its uranium enrichment in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.
After the US then ramped up sanctions, Iran gradually and publicly abandoned the deal’s limits on its nuclear development.
The current US president, Joe Biden, who was vice president when the deal was signed during the Obama administration, has said he hopes to return the US to the deal. But Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday the US will only return to the nuclear deal once Tehran honors its nuclear commitments.
