Iran Press/Europe: The Joint statement by High Representative of the European Union and the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany and the United Kingdom on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) stated: "We note with great concern the statement made by Iran concerning its commitments under the JCPOA," Iran press reported.
"We remain fully committed to the preservation and full implementation of the JCPOA, a key achievement of the global nuclear non-proliferation architecture, which is in the security interest of all," EU website mentioned in a statement.
The joint statement came as Iran revealed countermeasures to US’ withdrawal from the nuclear deal, giving the five remaining parties to JCPOA 60 days before reducing parts of its commitments to the agreement.
The move came exactly a year to the day US President Donald Trump withdrew America from the accord.
On May 08, the Iranian President announced that Iran has not and will not leave the nuclear negotiating table, and sincerely wants the nuclear deal to succeed, but the JCPOA needs major surgery to survive.
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Also, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said his country stops implementing some commitments under a 2015 nuclear deal that the US has made impossible to continue.
In this regard, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in an interview on Wednesday about the reason for Iran's revision decision on JCPOA said: "It is more than two years that we have faced radical government and ahead of it, a phenomenon called Donald Trump, who believed that the JCPOA is the worst and the most disgraceful deal ever happened in the U.S. history,"
"They admitted in their statements to serve the interests of Iran in operational ways in fields of finance and banking, oil and gas, petrochemical products, transportation, investment, business, etc. The JCPOA remained, but European countries were not that much successful in practical activities," Deputy Foreign Minister continued.
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