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Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad-Javad Zarif, said one of the major achievements of the landmark nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is that it has tranquilized international atomshphere in Iran's favor.

'The JCPOA is not facing a serious threat, if we try to preserve it ourselves,” said the minister on January 24, IRNA reported.

Referring to his ministry's recent report to Iran’s Parliament on the one-year anniversary of the JCPOA implementation, Zarif said the statistics mentioned in that report have clearly indicated that after beginning of sanctions against Iran oil industry, oil price had fallen down with no increase.

Lengthy negotiations resulted in the adoption of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the fulfillment of which could completely remove previously lifted economic and financial sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council, the United States and the European Union.

The long-anticipated Deal achieved in Vienna on July 14, 2015, committed Iran not to produce weapons-grade plutonium for 15 years, keep no more than 300 kg of enriched uranium to 3.67 percent, to convert nuclear facilities and use them exclusively for peaceful purposes.

Zarif further said sound implementation of the JCPOA led to removal of related economic sanctions.

He said under pretext of the country’s nuclear activities, Iran’s dossier had been referred to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and sanctions against Iran were hence further severed.

In fact, those sanctions had nothing to do with the JCPOA but had created an international atmosphere against the country, Zarif said.

Meanwhile, Iranian government spokesman Mohammad Bagher Nobakh stated that Iran's nuclear program was and always will be exclusively peaceful nature.

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