Tehran 0
10 February 2021

Foreign Minister Javad Zarif remarked that “with a new administration in Washington there is an opportunity to try a new approach but the current window is fleeting. Soon my government will be compelled to take further remedial action… as directed by our parliament and in accordance with our rights within the JCPOA, [which] entails an enhancement of our nuclear program and a reduction in our cooperation with IAEA inspectors”. “It can be averted”, Zarif added, “only if the U.S. decides to learn from Trump’s maximum failure rather than lean on it”.

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