Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the remaining parties to the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) have not taken enough practical measures to save the international accord.
Addressing a ceremony in Tehran on Saturday evening, Zarif pointed to recent talks between Iran and the European parties to the JCPOA and said, “Alongside the statements and pledges they give, the Europeans must act to save this agreement,” Tasnim News Agency reported.
“We have not seen sufficient practical measures by the western powers and the remaining parties [to the JCPOA],” he said.
Iran will continue the talks with the Europeans, but will not wait too long for them, the top diplomat said, referring to Europe’s move to propose a package of economic measures to offset the US pullout from the landmark agreement.
Earlier this week, Zarif said practical measures of the five remaining parties to the JCPOA have begun, adding that in his recent visit to Vienna, the foreign ministers of the five countries (France, Germany, the UK, Russia and China) had informed him of the new measures. Zarif noted that Iranian diplomats will continue the talks on the terms of the EU proposals.
On May 8, the US president pulled out of the JCPOA, which was signed in 2015 after years of negotiations among Iran and the G5+1.
Following the controversial US exit, Iran and the remaining five nations launched talks to save the accord.
