President of Iran said the nuclear deal protection is the state’s top foreign priority

Almaty. August 21. KazTAG – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said the protection of the agreement on the Iranian nuclear program is the country’s foreign policy priority, the Kazakh Telegraph Agency (KazTAG) reported.
“The most important job of our foreign minister is first to stand behind the JCPOA, and not to allow the US and other enemies to succeed”, the agency quoted H. Rouhani telling the parliament on Sunday.
To remind, on July 18, the U.S. administration announced 18 organizations and individuals supporting the Iranian ballistic missile program, Iran’s military procurement and IRGC (the elite unit of the Iranian military) to be added to the “black list”. In response, the Iranian authorities appealed to the UN Security Council with a complaint on the sanctions imposed by the U.S. and also accused Washington of violating the nuclear deal.
On August 15, the Iranian president said that Tehran would leave the nuclear deal in a matter of hours if the US impose new sanctions on the country. Two days earlier, the Iranian parliament passed a bill providing for additional $520 million for a program to develop ballistic missiles, as well as for expanding the activities of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in the region.
On July 14, 2015, Iran and the P5+1 (Russia, Great Britain, China, the United States, France and Germany) reached an agreement on settlement of the long-standing issue of Iran’s atom having adopted the JPOA.