Iran on Friday again urged the US to "unconditionally and effectively" lift its sanctions against Iran, in response to the US stated willingness to "attend a meeting of the P5+1 and Iran"
The State Department said the US would accept an invitation from the European Union to attend a meeting of the participants in the original agreement.
US President Joe Biden has said he will not lift economic sanctions against Iran until it complies with the terms agreed under a 2015 nuclear deal
Zarif made the remarks on social media after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Iran to "come back into full compliance" with the 2015 nuclear deal before Washington does "the same thing"
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), popular as the Iranian nuclear deal, was one of the key foreign policy achievements of the Obama-Biden Administration
Chief of the General Staff of Israeli Defense Forces described the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) as a deal that is unacceptable to Israel
At his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Blinken said: "An Iran with a nuclear weapon ... would be an Iran that will be even more dangerous than it already is"
The remarks by Zarif followed the European trio's (E3) earlier statement about Iran's plan to produce uranium metal-based fuel which, they said, might have military implications
Iran urged the United Nations' nuclear watchdog to avoid publishing unnecessary details on Tehran's nuclear program, state TV reported on Sunday
The United Nations' atomic watchdog agency confirmed Thursday that Iran has informed it that the country has begun installing equipment for the production of uranium metal
Iran fired cruise missiles Thursday as part of a naval drill in the Gulf of Oman, state media reported, amid heightened tensions with the US
Tehran's decision to ramp up uranium enrichment could undermine efforts to keep the deal alive: Official
An Iranian government spokesman says Tehran has begun enriching uranium up to 20 per cent at an underground facility
Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo amid tensions with the US over its atomic programme, a report said
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging Iran to address concerns raised about its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes and return to full implementation of its 2015 nuclear deal
Biden has said he wants to reinstate the nuclear deal while Trump has been accelerating his efforts to destroy it before he leaves the White House on Jan. 20
The weapon used in the killing of Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was satellite-controlled, a media report has said citing an anonymous source
While air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities may delay the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran, they will not prevent it
The Iranian parliament has passed a bill aimed at revitalising the country's nuclear activities in the wake of the assassination of Iranian nuclear physicist Fakhrizadeh
Israel has previously accused the physicist of being key to a covert nuclear weapons programme