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Iran Openly Declares It Intends to Violate UNSCR 2231
(MEMRI) Yigal Carmon - On July 20, 2015, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister and senior negotiator Abbas Araghchi said, "We will not accept an agreement which continues the embargo on weapons and the sanctions on missile development. In the end, the Americans said, 'We will put the issue of the embargo and the missiles in the UN Security Council Resolution separate from the agreement.'" Araghchi added, "Just as we refrained from complying with UN Security Council resolutions, we can do so with regards to 2231 (which includes the Iran nuclear agreement)....If UNSCR 2231 will be violated by Iran, it will be a violation of the Security Council resolution and not of the JCPOA (the Iran deal), similar to what happened 10 years ago when we violated Security Council resolutions and nothing happened." Foreign Minister Zarif, in an August 9, 2015, interview, reiterated: "Violating the JCPOA has consequences, while violating UNSCR 2231 has no consequences."