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Sunday 23 July 2017 - 14:57
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US violation of nuclear deal wont go unanswered: Iran official

US violation of nuclear deal wont go unanswered: Iran official


Press TV- A senior official says Iran will respondto any failure on the part of the US to meet its commitments under the 2015 nuclear agreement, to which Washington is a signatory.

Ali Akbar Velayati, the senior adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on international affairs, made the remarks after a meeting with China's Special Envoy for Syria Xie Xiaoyan in Tehran on Saturday.

Undoubtedly, the US breach of the JCPOA wont go unanswered, he said, referring to the nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

He said thesupervisorycommittee on the implementationof the nuclear accordwould discuss the US non-compliance and make a collective decision after hearing the results of the eighth meeting of the Iran-P5+1 Joint Commission in Vienna this week.

The nuclear agreement was inked between Iran and the P5+1 countries namely the US, Russia, China, France, Britain, and Germany in July 2015 and took effect in January 2016.

Under the deal, which was later endorsed by a UN Security Council resolution, limits were put on Irans nuclear activities in exchange for the removal of all nuclear-related bans imposed on the Islamic Republic, among other things.

The administration of US President Donald Trump, which took over in January 2017, one year after the JCPOA came into force, has however slapped sanctions on Iran over its missile program in violation of the nuclear deal.

Kuwait downgraded Iran ties under Saudi pressure

Elsewhere in his comments, Velayati said Kuwaits recent move to downgrade its ties withIran came under Saudi, US and Israeli pressure.

It is in the interest of the Kuwaiti government and nation to manage their relations with Iran based on good neighborlyrelations," rather than endangering the country's national interests under pressurefrom the Saudis and others, he said.

On Thursday, Kuwait shut down the Iranian cultural mission and ordered the Iranian ambassador to Kuwait City and 14 other Iranian diplomats to leave the country, according to local media reports.

The decision came after Kuwait convicted a group of men, claiming they were spying for Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah - charges both Tehran and theresistance movement have rejected.

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