JCPOA Shows European Way to Foreign Policy: Mogherini

“…the deal with Iran shows the way, the European way to foreign policy,” Mogherini said while addressing the opening session of the 2017 EU Ambassadors Conference in Brussels on Monday, the official website of the EU reported. 

Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) reached the 159-page nuclear agreement, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in July 2015 and implemented it in January 2016.

“This was not an agreement between two countries, I have repeated it time and again and I have the impression that we will need to repeat it time and again in the months to come. It was a commitment undertaken by the entire international community on one side and Iran on the other, supported by a resolution of the UN Security Council, and certified regularly by the International Atomic Energy Agency,” she said.

The chief of the EU foreign policy further said, “And so today, two years on, compliance with the deal is certified by the IAEA and by the Joint Commission I chair with the strong support of Helga (Schmid), not by one single individual country. And we will have to repeat it time and again in these months to come everywhere we are because again this is a matter of international security, international safety, and also a matter of credibility of international agreements. And I was glad to hear at the beginning of this month from the re-elected President of Iran, (Hassan) Rohani in Tehran in his inaugural speech, his personal commitment to continue to implement their part of the deal. This is what is counting the most for us in this moment.”

Since the historic deal was signed in Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly confirmed the Islamic Republic’s compliance with its commitments under the JCPOA, but some other parties, especially the US, have failed to live up to their undertakings.