Iran’s Zarif Rules Out Renegotiating Nuclear Deal With Biden

It’s up to U.S. to return to compliance with accord, he says
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks in virtual forum

Mohammad Javad Zarif said “It’s not that you can come in, impose restrictions on others, benefit from the privileges of membership and then all of a sudden decide to leave and inflict $250 billion of damage on the Iranian people.” — Mohammad Javad Zarif said “It’s not that you can come in, impose restrictions on others, benefit from the privileges of membership and then all of a sudden decide to leave and inflict $250 billion of damage on the Iranian people.”
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By John Follain, Golnar Motevalli, and Patrick Sykes

December 3, 2020 at 8:14 AM EST

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Iran will not renegotiate the nuclear accord it reached with world powers, its foreign minister said, drawing a line in the sand ahead of Joe Biden’s assumption of the U.S. presidency.

By walking out of an agreement anchored in a United Nations resolution, the U.S. is not in a position to impose conditions, Mohammad Javad Zarif told a virtual Rome conference on foreign affairs on Thursday.

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