Tasnim� French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian ruled out any alteration to the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, saying that the agreement �must not be touched�.

�Today they (Iranians) are complying with it; they must carry on complying with it. I think I heard commitments from President Rouhani in this respect. He is very committed to the agreement, which he regarded as a historic agreement. It is important for the sake of the world�s security for it to be maintained,� Le Drian said recently, according to the official website of French embassy in London.

�It must not be touched, it must be enforced, and that�s what we�ll be saying elsewhere too, it�s what President Macron will tell President Trump, it�s a dividing line between us�,� he added.

On March 5, the French top diplomat paid an official visit to Tehran and held meetings with senior Iranian officials, including President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

�In the meetings I had in Iran, there were points of disagreement, points of friction, where I set out France�s position very clearly and where I questioned the Iranian authorities about their intentions, particularly in the ballistics field. The ballistics field means missiles, and there�s a kind of capability-building frenzy on Iran�s part to acquire more and more missiles,� Le Drian also said.

Iranian officials have stressed that the country will not accept any change to the nuclear deal and that there will be no talks on Iran�s missile capability.

Iran�s armed forces spokesman said recently there could be no talks on the country�s missile program without the West�s destruction of its own nuclear weapons and long-range missiles first.

�The condition for negotiations on Iran�s missiles is the destruction of America�s and Europe�s nuclear weapons and long-range missiles,� Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri said.