Playing cautious with certain level of clarity after US withdrawal from nuclear deal, Iran has set out conditions to stay in the deal with world powers, including steps to be taken by European banks to safeguard trade with Tehran.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s supreme leader Seyyed Ali\u00a0 Khamenei, who commands the last word on country\u2019s policies, while addressing the heads of three branches of the government on Wednesday, said that European powers must protect Iranian oil sales from US pressure and continue buying Iranian crude, and must promise they would not seek new negotiations on Iran\u2019s missile program and regional activities.<\/p>\n
Read More: Khemenei warns: Iran will cut the nuclear deal into shreds<\/a><\/p>\n “European banks should safeguard trade with the Islamic Republic. We do not want to start a fight with these three countries (France, Germany and Britain), but based on their past records, we don’t trust them either,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n “Europe should fully guarantee Iran\u2019s oil sales. In case Americans can damage our oil sales…, Europeans should make up for that and buy Iranian oil,” the Khamenei stated.<\/p>\n He also said that “the Europeans must submit a resolution against the US at the UN Security Council to protest” Washington’s withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal known as JCPOA.<\/p>\n He warned if the Europeans did not meet Iranian demands, Tehran would resume its enrichment of uranium halted under the deal. He called on Iran\u2019s Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) “to be ready”\u00a0to resume nuclear activities “if necessary and\u00a0in case the JCPOA proves to be useless.”<\/p>\n Khamenei said that, over the past two years, the\u00a0United States\u00a0“has repeatedly violated” the nuclear deal while the Europeans remained silent. He asked Europe to “make up for that silence” and to “stand up against the US sanctions”.<\/p>\n Read More: If US pull out of nuclear deal, Iran would also go back<\/a><\/p>\n Referring to US President Donald Trump\u2019s move to withdraw from the deal, the Iranian leader said, “The Islamic Republic cannot deal with a government that easily violates an international treaty, withdraws its signature, and in a theatrical show brags about its withdrawal on television.”<\/p>\n Iranian leader\u2019s remarks came two days after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanded Iran make sweeping policy changes.<\/p>\n He said that US enmity with Iran is deep but all American plots against the country have failed since the victory of Islamic Revolution in 1979.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom the beginning of the [victory of the Islamic] Revolution to the present day, the United States has carried out various types of hostilities to undermine the Islamic Republic and has organized various types of political, economic, military and propaganda activities against it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n