TEHRAN, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday urged the U.S. administration to seize opportunity for adoption of new approaches toward mutual issues, official IRNA news agency reported.
"With the presence of the new government in Washington, there is a chance to try a new approach" toward dealing with mutual issues, Zarif was quoted as saying.
He urged the White House to seize the time before the current window would "close quickly."
Otherwise, "the (Iranian) government will soon have to take new compensatory measures," he said, alluding to his country's successive reactions over the past months to the U.S. 2018 unilateral withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
He urged the United States and the European signatories to the JCPOA to comply with their obligations to safeguard Iran's interests enshrined under the deal.
Iran has threatened that if the parties to the JCPOA do not adhere to their commitments, Iran would stop implementing the Additional Protocol of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Iran launched 20-percent uranium enrichment process in Jan. as part of Iran's Strategic Action Plan to Counter Sanctions, which was approved by the parliament in December 2020.
In response to the U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear deal in 2018 and re-imposition of sanctions, Iran has stopped implementing parts of its obligations under the deal.
Iran's senior officials have insisted on removal of sanctions imposed by former U.S. president Donald Trump, before the country re-embraces its nuclear commitments.
