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TEHRAN, Dec 4 (KUNA) -- Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvand affirmed the reciprocity of undertakings under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) struck by Iran and P5+1.
Iran cannot remain committed to the deal unilaterally while the other parties, particularly the United States, try to revoke it, Kamalvand told reporters on Monday.
The Americans have to make the right decision; if they are destined to abandon their obligations, we have many measures to adopt in response, he warned.
He was commenting on US President Donald Trump's plans to decertify the Iran nuclear deal through kicking the can to Congress to decide the agreement's fate, claiming that the Obama-era pact is not in US interests.
The US has to make the right decision on the deal, the Iranian official said, arguing that the deal and the embargo on Iran cannot coexist.
The Trump administration put itself in a pretty pickle when it decided to send the deal to the Congress. It turned to be caught between the simplicity of a presidential campaign promise and the nuance of reality.
They seek to keep the deal as ink on paper while continuing pressures on Iran, but these two hypotheses can never coexist; they have to choose just one option, the Iranian official went on.
On the Other hand, Iran has to remain ready to resume its nuclear activities on a large scale if need be, Kamalvand stressed.
The JCPOA provides that Iran should eliminate its stockpile of medium-enriched uranium, cut its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by 98 percent, and reduce by about two-thirds the number of its gas centrifuges for 13 years.
The deal, struck in Vienna on July 14, 2015, by Iran, on one hand, and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, on the other, also provides for lifting the US and EU sanctions on Iran, thus breaking the 12-year standoff between both sides.
On October 13, 2017, President Trump announced that the US would not make the certification provided for under US domestic law, but stopped short of terminating the deal. (end)
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