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US wrong to think it will have relations with Iran: Cleric

Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami addresses worshipers at the Eid al-Adha prayers in Tehran, Iran, September 24, 2015. (Photo by IRNA)

A senior Iranian cleric says the US is wrong to think that relations will be restored between Tehran and Washington following a recent agreement between Iran and the P5+1 countries.

“The US wants to say that, following [the conclusion of] the JCPOA, the ice has been broken between the two countries; but that is not the case,” Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami said in reference to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action clinched between Iran and the P5+1 on July 14.

He made the remark in a sermon following the Eid al-Adha prayers in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Thursday.

“We are enemies with the US because the US supports the usurping Zionist regime (Israel),” he said.

He also stressed that all sanctions against the Islamic Republic must be removed – and not suspended – under the JCPOA.

Ayatollah Khatami further warned of Washington’s schemes to use the JCPOA as an excuse to spread its political, economic and cultural influence in Iran.

Representatives of Iran, the European Union (EU) and the P5+1 countries pose for a photo following negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program in the Austrian capital, Vienna, July 14, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

Iran and the P5+1 – the US, Russia, China, France, Britain, and Germany – finalized the JCPOA in the Austrian capital city of Vienna.

The United Nations Security Council on July 20 unanimously endorsed a draft resolution turning the JCPOA into international law.

Under the JCPOA, limits will be put on Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for, among other things, the removal of all economic and financial sanctions against the Islamic Republic.


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