(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) TEHRAN, July 20 (KUNA) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday the European troika (E3 or the United Kingdom, France and Germany) "cannot and should not" be allowed to undermine the credibility of the UN Security Council by abusing the Resolution 2231 to which they themselves have not been committed.
"I have outlined why the E3 lacks any legal, political, and moral standing to invoke the mechanisms of the JCPOA and UN Resolution 2231 (2015)," Iran's IRNA news agency quoted him as saying in identical letters, addressed on Sunday, to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, and president and members of the UN Security Council.
"Through their actions and statements, including providing political and material support to the recent unprovoked and illegal military aggression of the Israeli regime and the US; rejection of the main pillars of the JCPOA; and their longstanding and ongoing failure to uphold their commitments, the E3 have relinquished their role as Participants in the JCPOA, making any attempt to reinstate terminated UNSC Resolutions null and void," he said.
"Iran responded to the unilateral US withdrawal from the JCPOA by first exhausting the accord's dispute resolution mechanisms before gradually implementing remedial measures under Paragraph 36 of the JCPOA, going to great lengths to convince other then-Participants to return to compliance with their obligations.
"However, the E3 have reneged on their commitments and actively contributed to the so-called US 'maximum pressure policy, and recently, the military aggression against our people too. Actors with such a record ought to be the last to claim good faith.
"The E3 must heed their own advice to the US in their letter of 20 Aug 2020 and "refrain from any action that would only deepen divisions in the Security Council or that would have serious adverse consequences on its work," Araghchi pointed out.
"Iran has shown that it is capable of defeating any delusional 'dirty work' but has always been prepared to reciprocate meaningful diplomacy in good faith," he added. (end)
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