FM Zarif is wrong, by definition.  Trump’s sanctions were Not Anti-JCPOA, because they were enacted after the U.S. left the JCPOA.  The U.S. was not bound by the JCPOA, and could do whatever it wanted with its own sanctions against Iran to try to convince it to give up its nuclear weapons program and other bad acts.  See “Zarif: All Trump sanctions were against Iran nuclear deal & must be removed,” Reuters, April 9, 2021.

“Report outlines how Iran smuggles arms to Hamas,” Adnan Abu Amer, Al Monitor, April 9, 2021.

One of many.  “In 1998, former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani opened a rally to commemorate Al-Quds (Jerusalem) day by labeling the fact that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust as “Zionist propaganda.””  See “Never forget Iran’s Holocaust denial,” Ellie Cohanim, Washington Examiner, April 9, 2021.

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