FNA- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rapped the US administration for decertifying the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and the world powers, and underlined the necessity for the EU to play a more active role to keep the agreement alive.

"I hope that all EU member states, including Norway, would play their constructive role in maintaining this agreement and using opportunities for cooperation," Rouhani said in a meeting with the new Norwegian ambassador to Tehran on Saturday.

Also in a separate meeting with the new Swiss envoy to Iran, President Rouhani stressed the need for strengthening the path of talks as a basis for resolving the problems in the world, and said, "No doubt history, the world and the American people will make better a judgment in the future (and realize) that the path chosen by the current statesmen has been fruitless and wrong."

"Today, we are in highly sensitive and important conditions and these conditions are not sensitive just for Iran and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany), but its impacts are felt in the entire region and the world because the nuclear deal created more tranquility in the world and the region," he added.

He said Iran will continue cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and vowed that Tehran will comply with the agreement as long as the other side remains committed to their undertakings.

His remarks came after US President Donald Trump delivered a speech on Friday, outlining US strategy on Iran.

The US president refused to certify the 2015 international nuclear agreement between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany, and warned that he might ultimately terminate it, in defiance of other world powers and undermining a landmark victory of multilateral diplomacy.

Trump said he would choose not to certify that Tehran is complying with the nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

While Trump did not pull Washington out of the nuclear deal, he gave the US Congress 60 days to decide whether to reimpose economic sanctions against Tehran that were lifted under the pact.