Ayatollah Khamenei reiterates that Iran will only return to its JCPOA commitments once it has verified that all US sanctions have been removed.

A political commentator says the recent act of sabotage at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility gives Iran the right to remarkably increase the remedial measures it has taken in the wake of United States’ unilateral withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal.

Iran’s foreign minister has told the UN chief that deliberate targeting of Iran’s safeguarded nuclear facilities ‘is a war crime.’

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says the only path for the US to rejoin‎ the JCPOA is full compliance and removal of all sanctions.

The new US administration of President Joe Biden has signaled its willingness to rejoin the JCPOA, yet it has conditioned the move on Tehran's resumption of its commitments under the 2015 deal.

Despite the US not lifting the sanctions, contrary to expectation, Iran has struck a deal with the IAEA in which Iran’s nuclear activities would be recorded by Iran itself rather than the IAEA, for 3 months, in an attempt to give diplomacy another chance.

China stresses sanctions removal is the key to resolving the Iranian nuclear issue.

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have reached a “temporary bilateral technical understanding” during the visit of IAEA chief to Tehran, according to a joint statement.

US President Joe Biden says America stands ready to “re-engage” with the group of countries that are party to a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, less than three years after his predecessor, Donald Trump, pull Washington out of the multilateral deal.

Iran’s foreign minister says the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers did not include Iran’s defensive capabilities because the US was not prepared to stop its arms sales to the region as a precondition.