WASHINGTON — The White House announced today that President Donald Trump would waive nuclear-related sanctions in order to remain compliant with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Trump warned it was for the last time if Congress does not provide him with a legislative fix that meets his demands.

“Despite my strong inclination, I have not yet withdrawn the United States from the Iran nuclear deal,” Trump said in a written statement today. “I have outlined two possible paths forward: either fix the deal’s disastrous flaws or the United States will withdraw.”

With an eye to recent Iran protests that erupted in Mashhad in late December and quickly spread nationwide before subsiding in recent days, the US Treasury Department also announced the designation of 14 Iranian entities and individuals mostly accused of committing human rights abuses, most prominently Iran’s judiciary chief Sadegh Larijani. The United States also designated the director of Iran’s Rajaee Shahr prison, where it said many Iran protesters had been held and denied medical treatment, as well as the electronic warfare unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, which it accused of restricting Iranians’ ability to access information and freedom of expression.

Trump said he was demanding that Congress amend the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA). He wants US legislation for unilateral “fixes” to the nuclear deal that go beyond the provisions of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was negotiated over years by the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia and China as well as Iran.