BAKU: Iran continues and will implement its peaceful nuclear program, the spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanani, said during the press conference in Tehran, Trend reports.

According to Kanani, Iran continues its nuclear program for peaceful purposes based on agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency, its safeguards, and the NPT.

Kanani added that Iran’s nuclear doctrine is absolutely clear. Iran considers it its right to use nuclear weapons for peaceful purposes. There is no place for nuclear weapons in Iran’s defense doctrine.

To note, the Comprehensive Plan of Joint Action on Iran’s nuclear program was implemented between Iran and the P5+1 group (the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany) in January 2016. The US announced in May 2018 that it was withdrawing from the plan and imposed sanctions on Iran in November of the same year. Iran has announced that there will be no restrictions on the Iran nuclear deal in 2020.

In late 2020, the Iranian
parliament adopted a strategic plan to counter the sanctions, citing the non-fulfillment of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed between Iran and six countries and the imposition of sanctions on Iran.

Based on the decision of the Iranian parliament, as of February 23, Iran stopped the implementation of additional measures and an additional protocol included in the nuclear deal. As a consequence, the monitoring mechanism of the IAEA was reduced by 20-30 percent.

Source: Trend News Agency