Iran’s acting ambassador to international organizations in Vienna made the comments in an address to a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors, where members should vote on a western-backed resolution that criticizes the country’s nuclear program with regard to its obligations under the 2015 agreement, the JCPOA.

Mohammad Reza Ghaebi told the meeting that the agency is focusing on the obligations of Iran while those of other signatories to the JCPOA are being ignored.

“If there was an international organization to oversee the proliferation of illegal sanctions, reports about violations by the US and the E-3 European countries under the Security Council resolution 2231 would have become a long list,” he told the board meeting.

“Extra-territorial imposition of such unilateral sanctions are a breach of international law per se, let alone the US’s violation of its obligations under resolution 2231 of the Security Council.”

Ghaebi noted that the sanctions impose illegal economic restrictions on others that goes against the principle of non-intervention in other countries’ affairs, enshrined in the UN Charter.

“[By using the sanctions], the US tries to influence the political choices independent countries make, in line with its own foreign policy priorities,” he said.

Ghaebi stressed that Iran’s remedial nuclear steps fall under paragraphs 26 and 36 of the JCPOA, while the US sanctions “cannot be considered retaliation or reciprocal measures”.

He also slammed the European signatories to the nuclear deal, saying they cannot claim to support the JCPOA as long as they block Iranian assets and stick with the US sanctions on Iran.

The ambassador added that Iran has limited its remedial nuclear measures to its obligations and rights under the NPT.

Ghaebi said even now and after the long-running talks to revive the JCPOA, the US is yet to clarify whether it would end its maximum pressure campaign against Iran and respect its obligations under the accord, n a verifiable manner.

Mohammad Eslami told reporters on Wednesday that the alleged pieces of evidence raised in the report of the secretary general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, are part of a political move aimed at maintaining the so-called maximum pressure campaign against Tehran.

Eslami referred to a resolution drafted by the US and the European troika to be put to a vote at the IAEA’s board of governors.

Eslami said the Zionist regime is the mastermind behind the resolution.

He noted that Iran entered into the 2015 nuclear deal to end allegations that had been leveled against the country for many years, adding that approval of the anti-Iran resolution would mean Tehran is back in square one.

Eslami dismissed claims that Iran did not fully cooperate with the IAEA as threadbare and described Iran’s cooperation with the agency as maximum.

He added, two to three percent of the world’s nuclear capacity belongs to Iran, but about 25 percent of the international inspections are being carried out on Iran’s sties.

Eslami underlined that Iran will not retreat in the face of these pressures, which he said will force Tehran to give up its good will vis-à-vis the other sides in the JCPOA.