TEHRAN - Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Thursday that if the government publishes the list of achievements made under the nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the opponents at home will feel ashamed.

Chairman of the Expediency Council also said Saudi Arabia and the Zionist regime of Israel fiercely oppose the JCPOA.

The JCPOA has provided the ground to make progress in scientific projects and researches and called for more efforts in this respect, Rafsanjani noted.

In July 2015, Iran and the 5+1 group - the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia plus Germany - finalized the text of the JCPOA in Vienna. The deal went into effect in January 2016.

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