Any Iranian hopes of Europe salvaging the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) are quickly fading nearly a year after the United States reneged on the nuclear deal between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on April 3 had some harsh words for Europe in an interview with Khamenei.ir, the official website of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“The Europeans must know that they cannot drop their responsibilities with a few statements or unimplemented plans,” Zarif said. “Our responsibility as a diplomatic agency is to pursue the work of the Europeans, warn them, bring pressure on them that they are responsible for acting upon their commitments, but we must never have hope in them.”
