Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described the nuclear deal clinched between Iran and the world powers as historic chance, as he called the United States to seize this chance and win the trust of the Iranians.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described the nuclear deal clinched between Iran and the world powers as historic chance, as he called the United States to seize this chance and win the trust of the Iranians.

In a statement released on Thursday, Zarif slammed Washington “wrong policies”, saying the US has wasted great opportunities.

"It would be best to seize this historic opportunity to win the valuable trust of the Iranian people, which has been damaged through decades of hostile and wrong policies by the United States," Zarif said.

He noted that the US intervention in the region had proved harmful.
"The previous US governments have wasted great opportunities by their false beliefs," teh top Iranian diplomat added.

The use of "threats of coercion as a foreign policy" would "result in nothing but a waste of American resources and (damage to its) reputation," he said.

"It's high time that this dangerous and harmful behavior, which belongs to past centuries, be put away."

Zarif remarks come after President Barack Obama warned US lawmakers on Wednesday that rejecting the nuclear deal at the Congress would lead to war and destroy Washington's credibility.

"Congressional rejection of this deal leaves any US administration that is absolutely committed to preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon with one option: another war in the Middle East," Obama said.

Iran and the P5+1 countries – the US, Britain, France, China and Russia plus Germany – succeeded in finalizing the text of an agreement, dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in the Austrian capital Vienna on July 14 after 18 days of intense talks over Tehran’s nuclear program.

Under the JCPOA, limits will be put on Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for, among other things, the removal of all economic and financial bans against the Islamic Republic.