Iran calls fresh US sanctions illegal, hostile
He said that he wanted to give the United States and European allies a final chance to amend the pact.
On Friday, Trump said the United States would withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal unless its "disastrous flaws" were fixed.
The most prominent new name on the Treasury sanctions blacklist, which forbids Americans from doing business with the targets, is the head of Iran's judiciary, Sadegh Amoli Larijani.
Mr Larijani is among 14 individuals and entities that were designated on Friday to be sanctioned by the administration for human rights abuses, censorship in Iran and for providing support to Iranian weapons proliferators.
"We are targeting the Iranian regime, including the head of Iran's judiciary, for its appalling mistreatment of its citizens, including those imprisoned exclusively for exercising their right to freedom of peaceful assembly, and for censoring its own people as they stand up in protest against their government", Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was quoted as saying by Bloomberg. It also sanctioned agencies that censor or limit access to the Internet.
Trump, who has sharply criticised the deal reached in Barack Obama's presidency, had chafed at having to once again waive sanctions on a country he sees as a threat in the Middle East.
"There is no indication today that could call into doubt Iranian respect of the agreement", French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told reporters in Brussels, after a meeting between the Europeans and their Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif.
"JCPOA is not renegotiable: rather than repeating exhausted rhetoric, U.S. must bring itself into full compliance - just like Iran", Zarif added, using the technical name for the 2015 nuclear deal.
Second, it must ensure that Iran never even comes close to possessing a nuclear weapon.
Trump's decision avoided placing the United States in violation of the commitments it made in the landmark 2015 deal.
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Trump outlined four "critical components" that must be included in United States legislation regarding Iran.
First, it must demand that Iran allow immediate inspections at all sites requested by worldwide inspectors.
Trump laid out conditions to keep Washington in the deal. "But any bill I sign must include four critical components", he said.
"I have been very clear about my opinion of that deal". The enormous financial windfall the Iranian regime received because of the deal - access to more than $100 billion, including $1.8 billion in cash - has not been used to better the lives of the Iranian people.
"This is a last chance". Trump has constantly criticised the pact inked between the six world powers - China, Russia, Britain, France, the U.S. and Germany - and Iran in 2015, in which the West promised to relieve sanctions on Tehran in exchange for a halt in Iran's efforts to develop a nuclear weapon.
The U.S. waived the Iran Freedom and Counter-Proliferation Act (IFCA), a 2012 law that penalized companies that did business with Iran's energy, shipbuilding and shipping sectors, exported precious metals to Iran, and allowed Iran to deal in U.S. banknotes.
However, Iran disagreed with Trump that its long-range ballistic missile program could be sanctioned under the terms of the current deal. These areas fall outside the scope of the nuclear deal. Within Iran, the Supreme Leader and his Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps use mass arrests and torture to oppress and silence Iran s people.
The US president's vulgar words against the nations are unacceptable and unbelievable, and show his lack of understanding, Zarif said at the opening of the first Asian Cultural Dialogue Conference.
"Naming and shaming Sadegh Larijani is one small way the USA can bring its human-rights policy and coercive economic strategy against Iran into greater alignment", said Behnam Ben Taleblu, Iran expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington.
"Like it or not, we need to uphold our end of the bargain so that we can hold Iran to its obligations and crack down on the regime's other destabilizing activities".
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