Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underlined that his country does not recognize the verdict of the US Supreme Court against Iran, IRNA reported.
'The US government knows well that any attempt concerning Iran's assets will make that country in the position of accountability vis-à-vis the Iranian nation and obliging that country to return those assets to the Iranian nation,' Zarif told reporters at the end of special meeting of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York on Thursday.
Zarif, meantime, pointed to his meeting with his US counterpart John Kerry on Friday, and said that the two foreign ministers will not discuss issues other than the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the issues related to its proper implementation.
'Our discussion here will be in continuation of the previous talks on JCPOA and we have agreed that the American side to study the points that were raiased by us and in relation to the proper implementation of the JCPOA and respond to us,' he added.
Asked whether he will discuss the US Supreme Court's verdict against Iran during his meeting with Kerry, Zarif said, 'As we have said before we do not recognize the verdict by the US court and the US government is well-aware of that.'
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that almost $2bn in frozen Iranian assets must be turned over to American families of people killed in the 1983 bombing of a US Marine Corps barracks in the Lebanese capital of Beirut and other attacks blamed on Iran.
The assets belong to the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), which has been blocked under US sanctions.