The 10 senators, all of whom opposed the JCPOA, said in a letter on Thursday to
the ambassadors of Britain, France and Germany that they would be "particularly
troubled” by any efforts to evade or undermine the sanctions.
The senators said the attempts to flout the American sanctions could be met by
congressional action, according to AP.
A first set of US sanctions lifted by the Obama administration under the terms
of the JCPOA is to be restored on August 4. The second set will be re-imposed on
November 4.
The senators, including outspoken Iran deal critics Ted Cruz of Texas, Marco
Rubio of Florida and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, noted that the sanctions are
matters of US law and had been eased only because the previous administration
had approved of the deal, which Trump pulled out of in May.
"We write to urge you to comply with all American sanctions but also to
emphasize we would find it particularly troubling if you sought to evade or
undermine American statutes,” the senators wrote. "These laws were passed by
Congress, signed by President Obama and will be enforced by President Trump.”
"Any attempt to evade or subvert them could well prompt congressional action, in
coordination with other elements of the US government, to ensure their
integrity,” they said.
On May 8, the US president pulled his country out of the JCPOA, which was
achieved in Vienna in 2015 after years of negotiations among Iran and the Group
5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany).
Following the US exit, Iran and the remaining parties launched talks to save the
accord.
Meanwhile, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has
underlined that any decision to keep the JCPOA running without the US should be
conditional on "practical guarantees” from the Europeans.
Source: Tasnim