Iran FM: JCPOA was imposed on US, showed it's not superpower
Yusef Jalali
Press TV, Tehran
Angry Iranian lawmakers booed Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during his briefing at the Parliament.
The fuss came after Zarif defended the 2015 nuclear deal, which is now hanging by a thread following the US's withdrawal back in 2018 and the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran. Zarif called the deal a big win against Washington’s anti-Iran campaign.
Unlike the previous Parliament, which gave the Rouhani administration the green light for signing the nuclear deal, the new legislature is openly against the JCPOA.
Headed by Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, a former rival for President Rouhani in the Presidential election, the new Parliament now asks the government to scale down its obligations under the accord.
When the nuclear deal was signed in 2015 between Iran and the P5+1 countries, the accord was celebrated as a victory for diplomacy and an elixir for Iran's economic woes. But the agreement brought about further disagreement when the US unilaterally pulled out of the deal.
Last week, the US once again urged the UN Security Council to extend its anti-Iran arms embargo, which is set to expire in October. Frustrated with the economic benefits of the JCPOA, Iran has now turned to other ways of upholding its economy.
The country has begun to further enhance trade ties with its biggest trade partner, China, as well as with its strategic ally, Russia. It is also ramping up domestic production to boost exports to neighboring countries.
What the Iranian Foreign Minister calls economic diplomacy is viewed as the ultimate way out of the country’s troubled economy.
However, lawmakers say the P4+1 are not the entire world, and that the JCPOA has not been and will not be a panacea for Iran’s economic problems. They called on Zarif to try new paths and capitalize on friends to save the economy.
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