Iranian FM urges US to take first step to return to nuke deal
Xinhua
1615387300000

An Iranian flag is pictured at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Jan. 8, 2020.(Photo: Xinhua)

TEHRAN, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday that the United States should take the first step to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), official IRNA news agency reported.

"The U.S. itself has left the JCPOA and should take the first step to return to the deal," Zarif said at an event in the capital Tehran.

They should first solve the problem, and then as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said, Iran will implement the deal, he added.

After Washington left the JCPOA in 2018 and imposed sanctions against Iran, Tehran has gradually quit parts of its commitments under the deal. Enditem