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No more JCPOA for US unless they ask again and we accept: President Rouhani

ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency

Wed / 6 May 2020 / 14:17

Tehran (ISNA) – Iranian President warned the United States and its allies that Iran would never accept violation of Resolution 2231 of the United Nations Security Council, and it is Iran's undisputed right to exit the arms embargo soon within the framework of the resolution.

Speaking on Wednesday at the meeting of the Council of Ministers, President Hassan Rouhani said that even if Iran buys a weapon, it will be for defence purposes, and it will not be like gasoline on fire, but water on fire, by which we will put out flames and not allow tension to arise.

Parts of President Hassan Rouhani's speech are as follows:

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

We are approaching May 7 when the unprecedented sanctions and pressures in the history of Iran and other countries have begun against the Iranian nation by an authoritarian regime.

On May 7 two years ago, US President Trump withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in an explicit statement against all international rules and regulations violating Resolution 2231 of the UN Security Council, signed the withdrawal and displayed it in front of cameras.

If we want to take a few minutes to review Iran's activities in the face of the conspiracies in the nuclear field, we negotiated with the world for two years and four months.

It took two years and four months for this process to take place, and the agreement became operational on January 2016. So, we worked for two years and four months to reach a conclusion, and this agreement was implemented for two years and four months.

These two years and four months have been very good for our country, and I think it was unprecedented in the political history of our country. Again, I would like to thank the exceptional efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Atomic Energy Organization, and the Ministry of Defense.

What has been done means that all the resolutions that were against us have been cancelled, that is, a big case that they wanted to continue for decades - the PDM case – was closed. That is, it was revealed after a few years that under Resolution 2231, Iran's arms embargo, which I will talk about more, would be lifted.

In the first temporary agreement in Geneva, our assets were unfroze, and in these second two years and four months we actually benefited from the tireless efforts of the first two years and four months.

Our oil exports jumped from 900,000 barrels to 2.8 million barrels; all our unfinished projects in all provinces began to be completed; huge refineries, gas units, petrochemical units.

It was very difficult for the enemies of the Islamic Republic of Iran to see that a country is sitting alone at the negotiation table with the rest of the world and removing all the dangers that threatened Iran.

Iraq has not been removed from Chapter VII of the Security Council, but the Islamic Republic of Iran was able to pull the country out of Chapter VII in two years and four months of negotiations, and this is a political honour in Iran's history.

One of the effects of these efforts was the lifting of the arms embargo, because you know we have two periods in the JCPOA agreement, a five-year period in which the arms embargo is lifted and an 8- and 10-year period in which almost all restrictions are lifted. We are approaching the first period, which is lifting the arms embargo. What did the Americans do? On May 7, 2018, under pressure from the extremists in the United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, and the stubbornness that Trump had with the previous president, the United States did a very stupid thing and withdrew from this unilateral agreement.

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