News - Middle East: UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged the United States to lift or waive its sanctions against Iran’s oil sector to resume the US-abandoned Iran nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

UN Political Affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the Security Council on Monday that “the Secretary-General still considers that the JCPOA represents the best available option” to resolve disputes over Tehran’s nuclear program.
Guterres has underscored that the US will also need to lift or waive its sanctions and extend waivers regarding the trade in oil with Iran, for the deal to resume, she added.
DiCarlo said the adoption of the JCPOA “just over eight years ago was rightly and universally hailed as a historic breakthrough. Today, the hope the deal engendered has greatly diminished.” 
She pledged the UN would “continue to urge the participants to exercise maximum restraint and to exhaust all available diplomatic avenues to restore the [JCPOA]. Indeed, the participants are responsible for its fate.”
DiCarlo further argued that the deal’s success or failure, “especially at this extremely dangerous juncture in global peace and security, matters to all of us.”
She also urged Iran to reverse the steps it has taken in response to the US’s violation of its commitments under the deal.