TEHRAN, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that the recent U.S. vote for the extension of Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) is a clear violation of an international deal on Iran's nuclear issue, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Rouhani called the vote "a blatant infringement" of the nuclear deal, saying that the U.S. president should not endorse it and "should use his authority to block it from being enforced."
He said Iran will not tolerate the infringement of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal, by any party involved in the contract, and will respond decisively.
Senior Iranian officials have been voicing their criticism and concerns about the violation of the nuclear deal following the U.S. vote to extend the ISA for another 10 years.
The vote by the U.S. House of Representatives is endorsed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday, still has to be signed by the U.S. president to become a law.
The ISA was first adopted in 1996 to sanction Iran over its controversial nuclear program.
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