JCPOA Implementation Day in offing: Iran FM

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the implementation of a nuclear agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries, dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is in the offing.

“We're getting to Implementation Day,” Zarif said on his Twitter page on Saturday.

“Nothing serious. Diplomacy requires patience, but we all know that it sure beats the alternatives,” he added.

Amid expectations of an announcement by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that the landmark nuclear agreement can enter into force, Zarif and US Secretary of State John Kerry met in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Saturday to iron out the final details.

The Iranian foreign minister also held a meeting with his Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz.

Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China -- plus Germany finalized the text of the JCPOA in Vienna, on July 14, 2015.

Under the JCPOA, limits are put on Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for the removal of sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

The sanctions imposed against Iran by the United Nations, United States and European Union will be lifted when the IAEA declares Tehran’s compliance with the JCPOA.

Upon his arrival in Vienna earlier on Saturday, Zarif had said that “all oppressive sanctions imposed against the Islamic Republic will be annulled today.”

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