Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh highlighted the failure of the US threats against Iran, advising Washington to learn lessons as the main culprit behind the current state of the 2015 nuclear deal.
In a post on his Twitter account on Tuesday, Khatibzadeh reacted to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken who has warned that Washington would turn to “other options” if diplomacy over Iran’s nuclear program fails.
Threats have never worked against Iran.
The supposed US “options” have already been tested in our region. Resulting catastrophic US defeats & the mess left for others to address are evident for all to see.
As main culprit behind current state of JCPOA, US should embrace lessons pic.twitter.com/KgTaWWMlJM
— Saeed Khatibzadeh | سعید خطیبزاده (@SKhatibzadeh) November 2, 2021
Iran and six world powers, including the US, France, Britain, Russia and China plus Germany, inked the JCPOA in July 2015. The agreement removed international sanctions on Iran in exchange for certain limits on Iran’s nuclear activities.
In 2018 former president Donald Trump unilaterally abandoned the deal despite Iran’s full compliance with its nuclear undertakings, as repeatedly certified by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The US then unleashed a “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran which practically deprived the country of all of the deal’s economic benefits.
Iran fully honored its nuclear obligations for an entire year, after which it decided to ramp up its nuclear work as a legal “remedial measure” against the US violation of the deal and the failure on the part of the other signatories, the E3 in particular, to safeguard its benefits.
Source: Iranian media and Twitter
