FNA - Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani warned that Washington has hatched plots to make Tehran pay the costs of the US withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal.

"The US is after withdrawal from the nuclear deal at Iran's expense and certainly we will not give this opportunity to the country. Of course, this doesn’t mean maintaining the nuclear deal at any cost," Shamkhani said on Wednesday.


He underlined that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the nuclear deal) is valuable if all sides respect and implement it and the deal bears the same benefits to all signatories.


"In the political field, 5 countries (Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany) have practically stood against the US and all of them have clearly or implicitly consider the US as violator of the nuclear deal and this is a political achievement for Iran gained at the lowest cost," Shamkhani said.


In relevant remarks on Tuesday, ranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blasted the US hostility and disloyalty to the 2015 nuclear deal, warning that Tehran will reciprocate Washington's defiance with legal and practical measures.


"The US administration's policies were pursued and studied in the commission which supervises the (implementation of the) nuclear deal and it was decided that legal and practical measures be studied and adopted against the US decisions," Zarif told reporters upon arrival in Istanbul to participate in an extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).


He added that as a first step, legal action will be adopted against the US action with filing a complaint at both international bodies and the joint commission of Iran and the world powers  supervising the implementation of the nuclear deal.


Noting that the Iranian parliament has recently studied reciprocal moves against the US violations, Zarif said that the foreign ministry and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) will also take reciprocal actions against the US moves.


His remarks came after the heads of Iran's executive, judiciary and legislative bodies in a meeting in Tehran on Sunday discussed the new US sanctions and the proper response to Washington defiance and violation of the 2015 nuclear deal.


The meeting was attended by President Hassan Rouhani, Judiciary Chief Sadeq Amoli Larijani and Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani.


During the meeting, President Rouhani appreciated the parliament for preparing a plan to confront and reciprocate the US sanctions, and said Tehran's reciprocal measures will be discussed in details during the sessions of the committee which supervises implementation of the nuclear deal.


"The Americans should know that they will be harmed more by such moves, as such acts will isolate them in the world," he underlined.


His remarks came after approval of a US Congress bill which passed both houses with veto-proof majorities and includes new sanctions against Iran, Russia and North Korea.


Lawmakers in the House of Representatives passed their version of the bill 419-3 last week, while the Senate voted 98-2 on Thursday to send the legislation to Trump's desk.


The White House announced on Friday night that President Trump intends to sign legislation imposing new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea.


In response, Rapporteur of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Seyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini announced on Saturday that the Commission has unanimously approved the generalities of a single-urgency bill to confront the US sanctions in an extraordinary meeting.