Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has expressed his ongoing hope that international cooperation could lead to the successful implementation of the nuclear deal signed in 2015.
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The nuclear agreement symbolises the value of multilateral deals, said Rouhani on Wednesday while marking the fifth anniversary of the pact.
"We therefore hope that such international values won't be damaged by US policy and that the signatories can implement the deal after all."
He blamed the deal's current fragility as being a conspiracy by the "vicious triangle" - Saudi Arabia, the United States and Israel - to provoke Iran to withdraw so they could blame Tehran for its failure.
The nuclear agreement, known as the JCPOA, was intended to enable Iran to have a civilian nuclear program, while preventing nuclear weapons, in exchange for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.
The deal began to fray in 2018 as President Donald Trump withdrew the US and reimposed sanctions.
Iran then began violating many of the agreements made in 2015.
Since then, the agreement has been on the brink of failure, with the remaining signatories - China, France, Britain, Russia and Germany - sticking with it, though they can't implement the economic part of the deal with the United States.
Since last year, Iran has enriched more uranium than allowed under the deal, as well as exceeded the level of enrichment permitted.
Rouhani said that Tehran would immediately respect the conditions laid out by the deal again as soon as the other parties did so first.
Australian Associated Press
