TEHRAN, Iran, July 19
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The revival of the JCPOA faced delay due to the US approach, said Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman.
"We should wait for the new government but the general policies of the system would not change and it's normal that these negotiations would continue in the normal course," said Saeed Khatibzadeh, Trend reports citing IRNA.
Vienna negotiations have progressed in the sixth round with strength and quality. It is important that people's interest and high decisions of the system are implemented, he said in his press conference.
"It is natural that these talks would continue in a normal course. The moment that the US government would return to its commitment of resolution 2231 and the JCPOA and Iran verified them, it would return to its commitment, we should wait for the new government to settle," he noted.
No word would be added or remove from the JCPOA, there are many plans but what is clear is that the system policy is this and would not say more in talks, Khatibzadeh added referring to the three-stage plan of some European countries for the JCPOA.
In January 2016, JCPOA was launched between Iran and the P5+1 group (US, Russia, China, UK, France, and Germany) in connection with Iran's nuclear program. In May 2018, the US announced its withdrawal from the deal and imposed sanctions on Iran in November of the same year.
To preserve the agreements reached as part of the JCPOA, the European signatories of the deal started in January 2019 that a financial mechanism for maintaining trade with Iran called INSTEX was formed.
On May 8, 2019, Iran announced that it had ceased fulfilling its commitments regarding the sale of over 300 kilograms of uranium, as stated in the deal, basing its decision on the other signatories that have not fulfilled their obligations. On July 7, Iran announced that it will not be fulfilling its commitments regarding the enrichment of uranium at 3.67 percent and the reconstruction of the Arak Heavy Water Reactor Facility as stated in the deal.
Iran announced that it will enrich uranium using next-generation centrifuges and will not mix it with the enriched uranium residues as part of the third step of reducing commitments in JCPOA on Sept.5.
On Nov. 5, 2019, Iran announced that it took the fourth step in connection with reducing its commitments to the nuclear agreement. So, uranium gas is being pumped to the centrifuges at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant. On Jan.2020, Iran took the last fifth step in reducing the number of its commitments within JCPOA.
As reported, in late 2020, the Iranian parliament has decided to implement a strategic plan to tackle the sanctions, citing the non-implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed between Iran and six countries and the imposition of sanctions on Iran. According to the decision of the Iranian parliament, as of February 23, Iran suspended the implementation of additional steps and an additional protocol provided for in the nuclear deal.
The US imposed new sanctions on Iran in November 2018. Over the past period, the sanctions affected Iranian oil exports, more than 700 banks, companies, and individuals.