Press TV- Senior Iranian lawmakershave called for action after the US House approved newmeasures on Wednesday thatblock the sales of commercial aircraft to the Islamic Republic.
The measures would specifically prevent the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) from clearing licenses for aircraft sales and prohibit the use of funds for financial transactions.
PressTV-US House votes to block aircraft sales to Iran
Lawmakers in the Republican-dominated US House of Representatives have adopted new measures to ban commercial aircraft sales to Iran.
Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy CommitteeAlaeddin Boroujerdi on Sunday called the move a clear violation of the JCPOA, referring tothe Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action as the nuclear accord with Iran is known.
"It should be acknowledged that the sale of aircraft to Iran is specified in the JCPOA text and annex," Boroujerdi said.
He reminded that the measures had to go through the Senate and also be signed off on by the US president before becominglaw, "but the whole issueis wrong in the first placeand needs to be corrected."
The rest of the countries, which have signed the nuclear deal -- the UK, France, China, Russia, and Germany -- and also the United Nations Security Council which hasapproved the JCPOA, should also protest the US move, Boroujerdi stated.
The lawmaker further urged the Iranian committee tasked with monitoring the accords implementation to take serious decision versus the violation.
MP Mojtaba Zonnour, who heads the Parliament's Nuclear Committee, said the US measures defied the letter of the nuclear agreement.
"One of the things that has been explicitly mentioned in the JCPOA is the lifting of sanctions onthe sale of airplanes and parts and after-sales services," said the MP.
The US House measures violatethe Iranian peoples rights, said the lawmaker as heurged action against any future attempts by the US to breachthe nuclear deal.
"In our view, the JCPOA has been violated again. Thehigh supervisory board on the implementation of the accord should announce its view and make a decision on this matter and decide on what action to take.
"Of course, Majlis (Parliament) will also beacting on its own responsibility and will decide on this issue at the first meeting of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission."
Zonnour further touched on theUS Treasury'sannouncementof economic sanctions on Thursday against 11 individuals and companies in Iran for allegedly supporting the countrys Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) andother charges.
"Definitely, the Treasury's bans are new sanctions and are among the instances of the violation of the JCPOA," he said.
Under President Donald Trump, the US hasimposed several rounds of new sanctions against Iran in a move which many believe are aimed at provoking the Islamic Republic to abandon the nuclear accord.
Alireza Manzari, a former deputy chief of Irans Civil Aviation Organization, said Boeing had signed its contract for sales of passenger aircraft to Iran Air before the new sanctions were imposed, and that the newUS law could potentially not affect past agreements.
Nevertheless,the US company could refrain from turning over the aircraft if the law cameto include formerprovisions, he added.
