US ’Seeking Excuses’ to Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Deal
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The United States is "seeking excuses" to tear up the nuclear deal with Iran by demanding military site inspections, Iranian top security official said on Friday.
"Iran has no undisclosed nuclear activity in any geographical location in the country," the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, said on state television.
"The issues being raised are media hype by the Americans so that they can refrain from fulfilling their obligations."
Washington has reportedly demanded inspections of Iranian military sites as part of verifying compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, which restricted Iran's atomic program in exchange for an easing of sanctions.
Meanwhile, the United Nations stated there is no obligation to carry out military site inspections unless there are suspicions of illicit activity.
It said it has doubled inspections in Iran since the deal and has no evidence that nuclear material has been shifted to military or other sites.
Shamkhani accused Trump's administration of "unconstructive and excuse-seeking behavior... which is an active attempt to damage this international agreement".
"Iran has merely acted within the framework of agreements and specific guidelines under the JCPOA [nuclear deal] and shall not accept any obligation beyond that," he said.
He echoed Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who tweeted on Thursday that the idea of reworking the nuclear deal was "pure fantasy".
"The #JCPOA is not [re]negotiable. A 'better' deal is pure fantasy. About time for US to stop spinning and begin complying, just like Iran," Zarif wrote.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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