“The United States is obliged to return to the JCPOA, and for the US to become a member of the JCPOA, it must try to meet membership conditions,” Zarif told in an interview with a cultural research center based in Tehran on Wednesday.

“We are open to America’s return to the JCPOA, but it must earn the right to return to the JCPOA by fulfilling its commitments,” he added.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Zarif stressed that Iran has remained committed to all of its obligations under the JCPOA, and that so far, no one has said that the country has withdrawn from the deal.

“We are not pessimistic about the future. The United States violated the Iranian people’s rights, but it has not been able to do anything. America is a loser in this matter, but were not a winner either because the people have been under pressure. This game can turn into a win-win game,” he said.

Zarif further referred to abortive attempts by the US and Israel to portray Iran as a security threat since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The reason for Israeli and American concerns about the signing of the JCPOA was that the deal eliminated those security threat claims as well as six Security Council resolutions without being implemented against Iran, he said.

Iran has so far rowed back on its nuclear commitments in compliance with Articles 26 and 36 of the JCPOA after the US withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018 and reinstated the anti-Iran sanctions and Europe failed to honor its obligations.

The Islamic Republic has voiced its readiness to reverse the suspension of its commitments under the multilateral nuclear deal if other parties return to the accord and abide by their own obligations.

Recently, a double-urgency draft bill was recently approved by the Iranian Parliament. The measure has mandated the government to limit the UN nuclear watchdog’s regulatory access and tasked it with empowering the country’s nuclear program further in retaliation for the Western non-commitment to the nuclear accord.