Alwaght- The Islamic Republic of Iran is putting in place a strategy to firmly respond to US actions that violate a nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers.
Iran’s move is in reaction to a Republican-controlled US House of Representatives that last week passed a bill to renew sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The US lawmakers on Tuesday 15th November voted 419 to one for a 10-year reauthorization of the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA), which was initially adopted in 1996 on the unfounded accusation that the Islamic Republic is pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program.
The bill was passed despite the fact that, Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council -- the United States, Britain, Russia, China, France as well as Germany –reached a landmark deal dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), on 14 July 2015. Under the JCPOA, whose implementation started January this year, all sanctions imposed on Iran by the European Union, the UN Security Council and the US have to be lifted. Iran in return has put some limitations on its peaceful nuclear activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, has confirmed several times on Iran’s full commitment to the nuclear agreement with world powers.
US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says that the legislative body is set to renew the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) before the year ends.
“We're going to take up the House bill. I think it's already held at the desk and we are going to pass it,” he told reporters on Wednesday at the Senate's weekly GOP leadership media conference. If the Senate does indeed vote in favor of the extension before the end of next month, it would be up to President Barack Obama to pass it into law.
Iran’s Leader: US Violated Nuclear Agreement
The Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said that Iran would respond if the US proceeded to renew the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) which expires at the end of 2016.
“So far, the current US government has committed several violations with regard to the nuclear agreement,” Ayatollah Khamenei told members of the volunteer Basij forces in Tehran on Wednesday.
“The most recent of them is the 10-year extension of the sanctions. If these sanctions are extended, it will surely constitute a violation of the JCPOA and they (the US) should know that the Islamic Republic will definitely react to it,” he added. During his campaigns, US president-elect Donald Trump, had threatened to “tear up” the Iranian nuclear agreement, or try to renegotiate its terms if elected president. Responding to the arrogant remarks in June, Ayatollah Khamenei said Iran “won't be the first to violate the nuclear deal. Staying faithful to a promise is a Qur'anic order.” He added that, “if the threat from the American presidential candidates to tear up the deal becomes operational, then the Islamic Republic will set fire to the deal."
Iran’s Parliament Decisive Move
Elsewhere, 220 Iranian parliamentarians in a statement released on Tuesday condemned extension of Iran's sanctions for another ten years.
They called on President Rouhani’s administration to take “reciprocal and serious” action based on “The Islamic Republic of Iran Government’s Proportionate and Reciprocal Action Law,” a legislation that was ratified in October 2015 to mandate government action against potential violations of the deal. Iranian Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani also warned Washington of Tehran's retaliatory measures against any violation of last year's nuclear deal with the world powers. Meanwhile, Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi on Thursday revealed that the legislative body the legislative body will firmly respond to US moves that constitute breaches of a nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
Elsewhere, Abdukarim Husseinzadeh the deputy chairperson of Omid (Hope) faction in Iran’s Parliament also disclosed that MPs are planning a fitting response to hostile actions by the US. In an interview with Tabnak news site, he added that MPs are preparing a proactive and preventive strategy to deal with possible sanctions while reciprocating Washington’s hostility.
