TEHRAN, Dec 15 (NNN-IRNA) – Head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI), yesterday slammed some anti-Iran accusations by the United States and Israel, as “psywar.”
Mohammad Eslami made the remarks, on the sidelines of a ceremony in Tehran, saying, “we are facing a campaign that is, in no way, willing to see Iran’s scientific and technological progress.”
He further stressed that, all parties to the nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), are required to fulfill their commitments, adding, the nuclear deal is a treaty, under which the signatories have made pledges and Iran has also accepted its commitments.
In a meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister, Benny Gantz, U.S. Defence Secretary, Lloyd Austin said, Iran had failed to offer constructive diplomatic engagement, in the talks that U.S. President Joe Biden had hoped would revive.
Austin said, Biden was “prepared to turn to other options,” if the current policy fails.
For his part, Gantz described Iran as “the biggest threat to global and regional peace and stability.”
The JCPOA was signed between Iran and the P5+1 in July, 2015, based on which the former accepted to make some adjustments to its peaceful nuclear programme, while the latter promised to lift international sanctions on Tehran in return.
In May 2018, however, former U.S. President, Donald Trump, expressing dissatisfaction with the JCPOA, pulled the country out of the deal and reimposed Washington’s unilateral sanctions on Tehran.
Since Apr, a diplomatic process has started in the Austrian capital to revive the JCPOA, as part of which several rounds of talks have been held between Iran and the remaining parties to the deal, namely China, Russia, Britain, France plus Germany.– NNN-IRNA
