Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Thursday ruled out renegotating the2015 nuclear accord, asking the US and Europeans to return to fullcompliance “without pre-conditions.”

Addressing a virtual session of the Mediterranean Dialogue meeting, Zarifsaid the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) provides for Iran “notimplementing its obligations” if the other parties, the US and Europeans,fail to implement theirs.

His remarks came a day after Iran’s top supervisory body gave its nod toparliament’s strategic action plan, which requires the government to speedup nuclear enrichment activities.

The government and parliament have been at loggerheads over a response tothe killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, which hasthreatened to re-ignite tensions with the West.

Parliament’s plan, which was approved by the Guardian Council, aconstitutionally-mandated body empowered to vet legislation, requires thegovernment to resume 20% uranium enrichment.

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It also calls for ending voluntary implementation of the AdditionalProtocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), giving thegovernment a one-month deadline to suspend the protocol’s implementation.

Zarif said the government was opposed to the plan, called the “StrategicAction to Lift Sanctions,” but it is obliged to the country’s laws and willimplement the plan if it takes the shape of law.

He, however, defended the action to “reduce commitments” under the JCPOA,citing a lack of cooperation from the US and E3 (France, Germany and theUK) as well as “national sentiments” in the wake of Fakhrizadeh’s killing.

Iran’s top diplomat termed the killing of Fakhrizadeh “an act ofinternational aggression” and said the three European countries have“failed to condemn” it.

On the possibility of negotiations with the new US administration, Zarifsaid the US has “commitments” under UNSC Resolution 2231, and it “cannotset conditions” for full compliance.