Iran's President Hassan Rouhani blamed "parliamentary bureaucracy" for the delay in the lifting of US sanctions that have almost brought the Iranian economy to its knees over the course of the past three years.

"My government has done the job with regard to the sanctions removal, [but] we are kept waiting by this or that parliamentary committee," he declared at an oil project inauguration ceremony on June 24.

The comments were made in reference to the parliament packed with his critics. The legislature has gone to extreme lengths to complicate any agreement between the Rouhani government and major world powers on reviving the Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Back in December, the parliament imposed the biggest brake on Rouhani's path toward the JPCOA revival through a bill characterized by breaches, strict deadlines and nearly impossible conditions for the American side. The bill threw the rift between the administration and the relentless lawmakers into the public sphere, as the president locked horns with the parliament speaker. Yet Rouhani had to swallow the bitter pill by implementing the law.