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TEHRAN, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Iran's minister of Industry, Mines and Trade said Friday that the election of Donald Trump as the new president of the United States will have no impacts on its international industrial deals, Press TV reported.
The international deals pertaining to Iran's major industrial projects are independent from Iranian nuclear deal that has come under repeated attacks by Trump in his presidential campaign, Mohammad-Reza Nematzadeh was quoted as saying.
Foreign parties to Iran's industrial contracts demanded to devise a mechanism to link the fulfillment of the accords to the fate of Iran's nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Nematzadeh said.
"However, none of the contracts that we have signed contain any reference to the JCPOA and we will go ahead with them under any condition," he added.
Iranian minister further said that the United States under Trump cannot unilaterally cancel the nuclear deal as it is not a unilateral but an international deal.
The JCPOA does not involve only the United States and Iran, Nematzadeh said, adding that "other countries are also involved in it. Therefore, it cannot be cancelled unilaterally. This was an international decision that was endorsed by the United Nations."
On Friday, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that all parties should abide by their commitments to the JCPOA.
Zarif was referring to Trump who said during his election campaign that the nuclear deal sealed by Iran and the world powers in July 2015 and implemented in January was "the worst deal ever negotiated."
