Thomas M. Countryman: “This agreement is not a commercial contract. It does not provide for the sale of nuclear equipment or technology to…”

The agreement is important to both governments. It serves as a commitment to each other that we are both determined to remain both technical and commercial leaders in the global nuclear power industry.

We would argue that any effort to step away from JCPOA would reopen a Pandora's box in that region that we do not think we could close again.

We believe that, through JCPOA, Iran has given up its ambition of a nuclear weapon and has submitted to an international structure of intervention and compliance.

The implementation of the Framework could not have been achieved absent the serious consideration of the use of force by the United States.