Saeed Khatibzadeh said the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is still alive and is now being discussed in the Vienna nuclear talks.

Speaking at his weekly press conference, Khatibzadeh said, “If the JCPOA is alive today, it is because of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and if today there exist such thing as the JCPOA, the implementation of which is being discussed, it is because of the decision that Iran made after the unilateral and illegal withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA and the inactions of the European parties.”

He added, “Iran and the Iranian people have played their part in protecting the JCPOA and made the tough decision they had to make that year. Today is the time when the other side should know that it is present in the negotiations in the position of the culprit, and it is the side that has made every effort to destroy the JCPOA.”

Everyone knows that if there is a reason for distrust of the United States, it is the hypocritical and bullying behavior of the United States. What is being discussed in Vienna is how to implement the JCPOA. We are not talking about its origin or its future. We are only talking about the implementation of the JCPOA and the return of the United States to the JCPOA.”

He noted, “The JCPOA is still going on between Iran and the P4+1, and Iran’s compensatory measures are defined as per the JCPOA to restore the chances of reviving the JCPOA and restore the balance that was upset by the withdrawal of the United States and the inaction of the United States.”

He stated, “We think that all parties know both the logic and the solution. Let me not rush about the result, but I assure you that nothing will matter to us except the interests of the great people of Iran. If the United States returns to the full, effective and accurate implementation of the JCPOA, the Iranian people will stand by their signature, as they once showed, with full implementation of the JCPOA, that they fully comply with what they sign despite all differences over the nuclear issue inside Iran.”

Responding to a question on whether a representative of the incoming Iranian government will join the talks if they continue, the spokesman said, “It basically does not matter in which time period and in which government the agreement is reached. If this agreement is concluded now and decisions are made by all parties, we will not delay even one hour of work. It is important to ensure the best interests of Iran and the Iranian people through these talks, and we will announce it whenever this happens.”

He added, “The decision on this issue is not up to this government and that government. The mechanism is set at the highest levels and pursued at the highest levels, and governments are part of the decision-making process.”

Diplomats from Iran and the U.S. as well as Europe are preparing for a potentially decisive round of talks this week in Vienna that is expected to result in a consensus to revive the JCPOA. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi, who leads the Iranian negotiating team in Vienna, said on Sunday that the Vienna talks have almost reached their end and that the time has come for the negotiating parties to make decisions.

Speaking after a briefing session with lawmakers, Araqchi said, “So far, six rounds of talks have been held with the P4+1, and we are almost close to the final stages. There is a series of issues that have been sufficiently negotiated and it is time for the countries to decide.”

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“#JCPOA IS the comprehensive plan concluded by E3+3 (incl the US) & Iran. The “C” stands for COMPREHENSIVE. It has been implemented only by Iran,” he wrote.

The top diplomat added, “Instead of posturing, US & E3 must finally live up to their commitments made, but never fulfilled.”

He warned that Iran will reciprocate the moves by the JCPOA participants.

In a blatant disregard for the fact that Washington was the party that unilaterally quit the deal in 2018 and should return to compliance, some 140 members of US congress wrote earlier in the day a letter to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and urged him to pursue a “comprehensive” deal with Iran.

The US under ex-president Donald Trump pulled out of the agreement in 2018 and imposed the “toughest ever” sanctions on Iran as part of his so-called “maximum pressure,” which tried in vain to force Iran back to the negotiating table for talks on a “better deal.”

Despite throwing verbal support behind the JCPOA, the European parties to the deal — France, Britain, and Germany — ultimately succumbed to Washington’s pressure and failed to fulfill their contractual commitments to Tehran, mainly by confronting the American sanctions.

That promoted Tehran to begin a set of retaliatory measures in several stages as part of its legal rights stipulated in Articles 26 and 36 of the JCPOA. The latest such measure was the halt in the implementation of the Additional Protocol to the NPT Safeguards Agreement, which was required by the parliament-adopted law.

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Of course, this has happened in the past that European countries have resorted to practical pretext-seeking actions and cheating in the negotiations but that these three countries without implementing or taking any step after Iran’s fulfilling its JCPOA duties, which caused the Iranian government and the negotiating team to be branded inside the country as being mercenary and lackey of enemies because of shutting down major parts of the nuclear industry and filling the Arak heavy water reactor with cement, have issued a funny statement where they have accused Iran of undermining the diplomacy, is undoubtedly like the script of a puppet-show.

This statement has got so bad and coming from imbecile minds that even Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who himself is a JCPOA culprit reacted in a tweet to the joint EU3 statement for accusing Iran of breaching its JCPOA commitments and undermining the diplomacy and wrote, “Have our E3 partners ever read para 36 of JCPOA & Iran’s many letters on that basis? By what logic is the onus on IRAN to stop its remedial measures undertaken a full year after the US withdrew from—and continues to violate—the JCPOA? What have E3 done to fulfill their duties?”

With a simple and honest glance at expert opinions of three famous political analysts and experts of the time who used to describe the Europeans as a “dread” even before the U.S. presidential election was held, and claimed in views of Europeans, the nuclear deal with Iran has turned into a magnifier that Europeans can see clearly their lack of economic sovereignty against the U.S. They state that the rift between Europe and the U.S. will remain with the re-election of Donald Trump.

The 35-page article of these authors at that time turned into the change in the position of the U.S. and current Europe. In this article which was compiled by David Jalilvand and Achim Vogt and edited by Sigmar Gabriel, the writers by taking for granted the victory of Joe Biden in the November 2020 election reviewed and analyzed the future of relations between Europe, the U.S., and Iran regarding the JCPOA. This article was published in October 2020.

In the introduction of this article even by taking conservative measures by these writers, we read, “Joe Biden has vowed in case of winning the election, he would return the United States to the deal, provided that for its part Iran is in full compliance to the JCPOA. Biden, while vice president under Barack Obama, had an important role in the nuclear deal with Iran.”  According to the authors of this article, following the return of the U.S. to the JCPOA, Iran will seek the removal of sanctions and payment for the economic damages because of the U.S. pullout of the deal while Europe believes the JCPOA can simply be valid through joint cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

The authors believe that Europe should mend its relation with the U.S. immediately and instead of saving the JCPOA, it should help the U.S. at any cost to begin talks with Iran. They believe Iran and the U.S. should move to reduce tension step by step and leave the complicated issues for the later stages.

The writers believe that two issues of Trump’s gradual pullout of the U.S. from the Middle East and from the JCPOA have caused a power vacuum in the region and it is misused by powers like Russia. In the meantime, European signatories of the JCPOA have strived to save it from full collapse. They also claim that European Union because of the U.S. has been unable to help Iran economically or have trade cooperation with it.

Now with the issuance of this statement, it is observed that Europe has occupied the seat of Trump and now Biden plays the role of Europe. One should see that in which part of the history Europe has been so funny, irrational, rude and cheater. According to the political analysts in Iran, the JCPOA is moving in direction of its death and burial unless Europeans and Americans have reached this conclusion to return to the diplomatic logic and to compensate their shortcomings and to resume its delayed actions and pay damages to Iran, and continue the genuine measures of verification that the Supreme Leader of Iran has defined it as a protocol for the country in order that perhaps a semi-live is blown into the body of this dying patient (JCPOA) and its revival in a repentance climate of the West regarding its deceiving and cheating performance.

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