{"id":53147,"date":"2019-02-17T10:58:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T10:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/02\/17\/iran-presses-europe-to-defy-us-and-stay-in-nuke-pact\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:53:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:53:43","slug":"iran-presses-europe-to-defy-us-and-stay-in-nuke-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/2019\/02\/17\/iran-presses-europe-to-defy-us-and-stay-in-nuke-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran presses Europe to defy US and stay in nuke pact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MUNICH \u2013 Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has urged European leaders to reject pressure from the United States to leave a nuclear accord designed to keep Tehran from making atomic weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His comments at the Munich Security Conference here come one day after U.S. Vice President Mike Pence used the same stage to urge Europe to walk away from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA. The Trump administration last year reinstated sanctions against Iran that were suspended under the accord, thereby nixing the U.S. commitment to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europeans, however, have attempted to keep the Obama-era deal alive, setting up a special trade mechanism last month designed to fulfill the pact’s requirement of normalized economic relations with Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe U.S. is now laboring to force others to violate that resolution,\u201d Zarif said, adding that European efforts to save the JCPOA weren’t showing \u201cmuch success.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t