Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says it still remains to be seen if US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are prepared to depart from their predecessors� attitude towards Iran.

�It remains unclear whether POTUS (President of the United States) and Sec Blinken are ready to bury the failed �maximum pressure� policy of Trump and Mike Pompeo, and cease using Economic Terrorism as bargaining �leverage,�� Zarif tweeted on Monday.

The US left a historic 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and others under former president Donald Trump. Ex-American top diplomat Mike Pompeo was among those playing a notable role in escalating the situation that led to Washington�s departure.


It remains unclear whether�@POTUS�and�@SecBlinken�are ready to bury the failed �maximum pressure� policy of Trump and�@mikepompeo, and cease using�#EconomicTerrorism�as bargaining �leverage�.

Iran is in compliance with the�#JCPOA. Just read paragraph 36.

Time to change course.



� Javad Zarif (@JZarif)�June 7, 2021

Washington then returned the inhumane economic sanctions that the deal -- officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) -- had lifted.