The photo taken on October 14, 2022, shows US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meeting with Iranian civil society activists in the Thomas Jefferson Room at the State DepartmentState Department in Washington, DC. PHOTO AFP TEHRAN - Iran warned the United States on Monday that it will not tolerate any aggression against its territory and interests and will react decisively to what it calls threatening remarks by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
According to a statement released on the ministry's website, the warning by Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani comes a day after Blinken told the Arabic news agency Al Arabiya that all options are available on the table should the talks on the resumption of a 2015 nuclear deal not to fruition.
Kanaani warned the US government about the legal and international responsibilities of its threats against Iran and the political consequences of such provocative comments.
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He stated that nuclear weapons have no place in Iran's national security doctrine but the country will not stop its scientific, technical and technological progress in the nuclear field in line with the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
In July 2015, Iran signed a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action JCPOA with world powers and agreed to put some restrictions on its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of sanctions on the country. The United States pulled out of the deal in May 2018 and imposed its unilateral sanctions on Iran, prompting the latter to reduce some of its nuclear commitments under the deal.
The talks on the JCPOA's revival began in Vienna in April 2021. After the latest round of talks in August 2022, there has been no breakthrough.