US violating spirit of Iran nuclear deal: Iranian academic
Press TV has conducted an interview with Mohammad Marandi, a professor at the Tehran University, and Daniel Serwer, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University, to discuss the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries, including the US.
Marandi says the United States “is violating the spirit of the nuclear agreement” because American President Barack Obama, in violation of articles of the nuclear deal, warned foreign investors against doing any business with Iran during his speech in the 2016 Nuclear Industry Summit in Washington.
American authorities also imposed visa-related restrictions on Iranians and anyone who has traveled to Iran for the past five years, the academic says, adding that these hostile actions are meant “to impede the Iranian economy from integrating into the international monetary system and international trade.”
He further says Iran was always pursuing a peaceful nuclear program, so in reality “there was no reason or no need for a nuclear deal;” however, he says, “The reason why we went on that road was because the United States and its Western allies were using Iran’s nuclear industry and its nuclear technology as an excuse to hurt the country.”
Pointing to the American policy against Iran’s conventional missile program, he says, “If the United States thinks that, step by step, it can take away Iran’s rights and turn Iran into a weak defenseless country, it is mistaken.”
Serwer, for his part, says, “The nuclear deal is a nuclear deal, and it’s a deal, it’s not a broad rapprochement on all issues, and the United States continues to have concerns about Iran’s ballistic missile program, about human rights and about terrorism.” He adds Iranians are going to hear more and more about these concerns during the presidential election campaign in the US and they can raise their complaints through the available channels.
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