On October 5, 2017, Washington Post reported that President Trump intended to cancel the nuclear agreement with Iran.  Russia’s high-ranking senator Viktor Ozerov posited that the U.S. decision to suspend the nuclear agreement with Iran is not going to affect Russia’s arms deliveries to the Middle Eastern nation.

The likely refusal of the U.S. President Donald Trump to adhere to the nuclear agreement with Iran won’t influence the implementation of Russia’s contracts to deliver armaments to Tehran following the year 2020. The non-fulfillment of the United States’ agreement with Iran will not impact the sales of warplanes, helicopters, warships, and missile systems, the former chairman of the Federation Council’s Defense and Security Committee Viktor Ozerov said on October 5, 2017.

“There is a decision of the United Nations Security Council confirming that Tehran has implemented all of its obligations under the nuclear program. Russia will adhere to its own obligations regarding Iran, including the program of arms deliveries after 2020,” Senator Ozerov said.

Mr. Ozerov noted that the restrictions on conventional arms supplies to Iran, including the sales of tanks, armored combat vehicles, high-caliber artillery systems, warplanes, helicopters, warships, and missile systems, are to be phased out after the year 2020. The Russian lawmaker said that the Security Council’s resolution has not been withdrawn.

U.N. sanctions were imposed on Iran in multiple stages. In 2006, the United Nations prohibited the sales of nuclear weapon technology to Iran. The following year, the Security Council prohibited Iranian weapons exports. In June 2010, the U.N. imposed a prohibition on conventional arms sales to the Middle Eastern country. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action for Iran provides that limitations on armament sales to the country would expire in October 2020.

Senator Ozerov indicated that the United States’ withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear accord could jeopardize peace talks on Syria, as Iran is one of the participants in Syrian negotiations. Further, in Senator Ozerov’s words, the withdrawal of the United States’ commitment to the Iranian nuclear deal has alarmed officials in Moscow. Russia’s preoccupation is that the U.S. would abrogate the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. According to the Russian official, the United States’ cancelling the Iranian nuclear agreement would send the wrong message to North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and result in a major setback in the efforts to resolve nuclear tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

The Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky, in his turn, suggested that the United States’ exit from the Iranian nuclear agreement will result in Iran’s decision to proceed with nuclear development.

The Iranian nuclear agreement, referred to as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, is a multilateral accord aimed at lifting the commercial embargoes and easing the political containment of Tehran in return for Iran’s giving up its nuclear weapons program. The parties to the accord are Iran, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council – which include China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States – as well as Germany. The accord took years to negotiate before it became effective as of the start of 2016.

In his address on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly, the American leader said that the nuclear agreement with Iran was embarrassing for the U.S.