US Has No Right to Exploit UN, IAEA to Vilify Iran

Iran’s top diplomat said the United States has no right to exploit the UN and the International Atomic Energy Agency to vilify Iran, because Washington has already breached the nuclear deal that Tehran clinched with world powers, including the US, and the United Nations Security Council resolution that endorsed the deal.
In a tweet on Thursday, Mohammad Javad Zarif noted that despite Iran’s effort to abide by its obligations as per the nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Washington has been doing its best to heighten tensions with Tehran and is also bullying other countries to follow suit, Press TV reported. 
After its conclusion in Vienna in 2015, the nuclear accord between Iran and six world powers was endorsed by the UN Security Council in the form of Resolution 2231.
The accord removed nuclear-related sanctions against the Islamic Republic that changed some aspects of its nuclear program in return. The accord was hailed as a pillar of world security due to its swift contribution to lowering regional and international tensions.
The US, however, left JCPOA in May 2018 in breach of its multilateral nature and the UNSC’s enshrinement of the accord.

It later returned sanctions, started scaring others to stop their legal trade with Iran and refused to relieve the bans although Tehran won an International Court of Justice case against Washington, which mandated it to lift the coercive measures targeting transfer of food and medicine to Iran.
The US has been trying to mount pressure on Iran through numerous other channels too, including the security council itself and the IAEA, the UN nuclear agency.
Washington has vowed to have the UN Security Council extend an arms embargo that will end under JCPOA in October and threatened to restore all international sanctions against Tehran, if the embargo is not prolonged.
The US alleges that it is allowed to take both the measures against Iran as it is still “named” in the UNSC resolution as a JCPOA partner.
Zarif’s tweet, though, refuted Washington’s claim by invoking a 50-year-old international legal opinion.
Under the 1971 International Court of Justice opinion cited in his tweet, “a party which disowns or does not fulfill its own obligations cannot be recognized as retaining the rights, which it claims to derive from the relationship”, 
The opinion has described the code as a fundamental principle governing international relationships.
Russia recently attacked the US efforts to come in the way of Iran’s cooperation with IAEA, although, the nuclear agency has not yet found any evidence of “diversion” of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear work.
Earlier this week, Russia's Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said the nuclear deal’s “opponents” were seeking to "undermine the confidence and cooperation” between Tehran and IAEA.
He reminded that the nuclear accord was, among other things, clinched to "restore confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature" of Iran's nuclear program, noting that the US nuclear agency has not found any “military dimension” to Iran’s nuclear activities.
Washington, Israel and some regional countries have, however, long been trying to allege otherwise, with the Israeli regime using every international occasion to flaunt, what it calls, evidence of misapplication of the Iranian nuclear work without providing any concrete proof.
The Iranian foreign minister presented a list of the United States’ other actions, which stand in sharp contrast to the international law, saying the US has clearly admitted to involvement in such acts of terrorism as assassination of the regional resistance movement’s top figures in Iraq, as well as facilitating Saudi and Israeli regime’s war crimes in Yemen and Palestine.
Zarif concluded his tweet by emphasizing that as a result of its bleak track record with regard to ignoring the norms of human rights and international law, the United States has no right to “abuse UN & IAEA to vilify Iran”.