Araqchi: E3 Cannot Activate ‘Trigger’ Mechanism

Date: 19 January 2020 - 22:18

News ID: ۷۵۲۸۶

TEHRAN (Press TV) -- Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Sunday the three European signatories to Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), cannot logically activate the deal’s dispute settlement mechanism, because Iran has already done that. "We are now engaged in complicated legal discussions and Russia and China are of the same opinion. It was Iran that first resorted to Article 36 [of the JCPOA] and completed its application. Therefore, logically, legally and even politically speaking, the European countries cannot take advantage of this article, because we have already done that and applied its mechanism in full,” he said.