“When in the first days of 2020, the United States martyred the heroes of the anti-terrorist, including Lt. Gen. Soleimani, in a terrorist act on the direct order of the President of this country and a few days later, the US president threatened to attack 52 of Iran's most important cultural sites, the Security Council remained silent for a long time," Takht-Ravanchi said.

“Of course, that same year, when the United States introduced a draft resolution imposing an arms embargo on Iran, 13 members of the Security Council categorically rejected it,” Takht-Ravanchi said, adding: “Subsequently when the US tried to activate the snapback mechanism against Iran, the same 13 members of the Council rejected the US action and declared that by withdrawing from the JCPOA, the US lost any right to use the snapback mechanism and its claim in this regard is illegitimate and has no legal, political or practical effect. The claim of the current US administration to change its policy towards the JCPOA is meaningless, and in practice, the US policy of maximum pressure against Iran continues, including the fact that Iran is not even able to import drugs using its financial resources abroad.”

“Although the ongoing nuclear talks in Vienna are the first step in assessing the correctness of the US real political will to return to the JCPOA, the main and real test will be when, after verification, it is proven that the US has changed course and abandoned its failed policy of maximum pressure, as well as stopped its economic terrorism against Iran," the Iranian envoy added. (ILKHA)