As a confidence-building measure, Iran provisionally implements the Additional Protocol [to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)], Reza Najafi said on Sunday.
He added that Sunday, 90 days after the passing of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, is the "Adoption Day" of Iran's nuclear agreement with world powers, according to theJoint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Najafis remarks came after the IAEA announced in a statement that Iran had notified the agency that Tehran would provisionally apply the Additional Protocol to its Safeguards Agreement, pending its ratification by the Majlis (Parliament).
Meanwhile, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, said Iranwould work to fulfill its commitments at the Natanz and Fordo nuclear sites, as early as this week.
Earlier in the day, US President Barack Obama ordered Washington to take all appropriate additional measures to ensure the prompt and effective implementation of the US commitments set forth in the JCPOA."
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini also said in a joint statement that the EU had "adopted the legislative framework for the lifting of all nuclear-related economic and financial sanctions against Iran."
"It will take effect on Implementation Day, simultaneouslywith the IAEA-verified implementation of agreed nuclear measuresby Iran," the statement said.
In July, Iran and the IAEA signed a road map for the clarification of past and present issues regarding Tehrans nuclear program in the Austrian capital Vienna.The IAEA's final report on Iran is due by December 15.
The agreement was reached on the same day Iran and the P5+1 - the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany - finalized JCPOA in Vienna.
By Press TV
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