Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi addressed the country’s parliament on the 2015 comprehensive nuclear deal between Iran and the six world powers. Araghchi, a former nuclear negotiator, said his report was a “realistic portrayal” of the both the “economic openings and challenges encountered” in the 21 months since the nuclear deal has been implemented.

Araghchi said that the biggest challenge since the implementation of the deal has been “America’s ill intentions.” He added that while the nuclear deal states that all parties must implement the deal with good intentions, the United States “has always tried to decrease Iran’s benefits” from the deal.

Araghchi said that this challenge was “clear," both under the Barack Obama administration and the Donald Trump administration. However, he also said that under the Trump administration, the ill intentions, “the breaking of pacts and even the violations of the nuclear deal have increased considerably.”

Araghchi said that the Foreign Ministry has provided a report to parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission on the breaking of pacts by the United States. As examples of some of these actions, Araghchi noted the Obama administration’s visa restrictions on those who had traveled to Iran; the delays in issuing licenses for the selling of airplanes; the creating of cumbersome financial and banking regulations; the insistence on increasing non-nuclear sanctions; the increase in the number of Iranian nationals sanctioned; the violent and provocative comments by President Donald Trump; and unconventional diplomatic actions such as America’s Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley’s trip to Vienna to pressure the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding Iran’s adherence to the nuclear deal.