French President said that Washington would be responsible if Iranian authorities abandon the nuclear deal.

Iran Press/Europe: "Firstly, Iran did not withdraw this deal. Secondly, if Iran withdraws from this deal, it will be the responsibility of the United States. We will not mix the roles and say that it's the Europeans," Emmanuel Macron said at a press conference on Thursday following the informal summit of EU leaders in the Romanian city of Sibiu, Sputnik reported.

On Wednesday, Iran revealed countermeasures to US’ withdrawal from the nuclear deal, giving the five remaining parties to JCPOA 60 days before reducing parts of its commitments to the agreement.

The move came exactly a year to the day US President Donald Trump withdrew America from the accord.

Macron's remark follows the Russian Foreign Ministry's announcement made earlier in the day that the United States must terminate any activities that hamper political and economic cooperation of other countries with Iran.

This statement was made shortly after EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini noted that the European Union remains committed to the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal signed with Iran in 2015, as long as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirms that Tehran acts in accordance with the deal.

On May 08, the Iranian President announced that Iran has not and will not leave the nuclear negotiating table, and sincerely wants the nuclear deal to succeed, but the JCPOA needs major surgery to survive.

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Also, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said his country stops implementing some commitments under a 2015 nuclear deal that the US has made impossible to continue.

In this regard, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in an interview on Wednesday about the reason for Iran's revision decision on JCPOA said: "It is more than two years that we have faced radical government and ahead of it, a phenomenon called Donald Trump, who believed that the JCPOA is the worst and the most disgraceful deal ever happened in the U.S. history,"

"They admitted in their statements to serve the interests of Iran in operational ways in fields of finance and banking, oil and gas, petrochemical products, transportation, investment, business, etc. The JCPOA remained, but European countries were not that much successful in practical activities," Deputy Foreign Minister continued. 101/201

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