The president of Iran suggested that Tehran would honor the Obama-era nuclear deal within an hour after the U.S. rejoined the deal, which the president-elect Joe Biden
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The Guardian reported that President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that Iran was willing to restart relations with the US under the Biden administration, but warned of any changes planned in the 2015 agreement.
Rouhani also warned U.S. and European allies that they were trying to restrict Iran’s ballistic missile program, the newspaper added.
Biden has repeatedly said he wants to restore the multinational deal with Tehran.
In September, he wrote in a CNN opinion that if “Iran again strictly complies with the nuclear deal, the United States would rejoin the deal as a starting point for follow-up negotiations.” .
Biden said earlier this month that he was on the side of those comments.
In a speech in early December, the president-elect warned against the possibility of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.
“And the last damn thing we need in this part of the world is a buildup of nuclear capacity,” he said.
The Trump administration abandoned Iran’s nuclear deals in 2017, blaming Iranian officials at the time for not complying with the spirit of the deal. European allies have urged Tehran to remain within the parameters of the agreement, although the US withdrew and reinstated crippling sanctions on Iran.
Iran has blamed U.S. sanctions for its continuing economic difficulties, including its difficulty in obtaining medical supplies to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused more than 52,000 lives in the country according to a tracker operated by Johns University Hopkins.