Iran deal working well, no need to fix it: Russia
Tehran (KNA) - A Russian deputy foreign minister says the international nuclear deal with Iran is working “quite efficiently” and requires no amendment, dismissing calls by the United States to address “flaws” in the deal.
Sergei Ryabkov told Russian news agency TASS that there was an American saying that goes "If it's not broke, don't fix it."
"That's what I would like to address to the colleagues in the United States," the Russian diplomat said.
The approach of calls for fixing the Iran deal "seems to be a wrong way to follow as the existing documents are working quite efficiently," he said of the deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Iran is fully compliant with the deal, while the US is not, Ryabkov said. "What is to be improved in this context is the implementation of the existing agreements by the US side," he added.
He also noted that by fully upholding their end of the bargain, the Iranians "have passed the ball to the US side."
The parties to the JCPOA are Iran, Russia, the US, China, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany. They struck the deal in July 2015 and then took it to the United Nations Security Council, where it was unanimously endorsed in a resolution and effectively became international law.
But the administration of US President Donald Trump, which took office a year after the deal had begun being implemented, has been crying foul. In a speech on Friday, Trump said he was "directing my administration to work closely with Congress and our allies to address the deal's many serious flaws."
Trump and other US officials had also in the past talked of amending certain aspects of the deal, which would technically require reopening negotiations. Iran has been clear that renegotiating is not an option.
Source: Press TV