He also criticised Trump for the speech he made at the UNGA on Tuesday, in which the USA president claimed Iran was exporting violence and destabilising the Middle East and bashed the nuclear deal as an “embarrassment” to the US. If the US Congress decides to reimpose economic sanctions – despite the concerns of fellow deal signatories Britain, China, France, Germany and Russian Federation – the agreement would likely collapse. If the administration determines the nation is complying, it will recertify the agreement.
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Mogherini appeared to object to President Trump’s public criticism of the deal, saying: “The worldwide community can not afford to dismantle an agreement that is working”. He later conceded that reports from the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, “continue to confirm that Iran is in technical compliance with the agreement”. “The deal is the outcome of two years of intensive multilateral negotiations overwhelmingly applauded by the global community and endorsed by the Security Council”, Rouhani said.
Trump has vowed repeatedly to take a tougher line toward Iran than his predecessor, threatening at various times to renegotiate or even dismantle the nuclear deal, and shoot Iranian boats out of the water if they provoke US naval vessels in the Persian Gulf. Enriched uranium is a component of a nuclear bomb. So we know more about the people, the places, the technology.
Rouhani responded to a question on whether his government would be willing to talk to the Trump administration about issues other than the nuclear deal saying, “we wouldn’t be able or willing to talk to them about other issues”.
Trump did not hold back in his own General Assembly address on Tuesday, sending his clearest signal yet that he intends to torpedo the agreement. “They negotiated a limited nuclear deal, they’re receiving benefits for that, while their other problematic activities are not addressed in the deal at all”. This document confirmed that Iran fully meets its obligations under the agreement.
“I found it useful to hear their perspectives”, he said of his fellow members, “and I hope they found it useful as well”.
So all of that will still be there.
“The fact that the European partners are rushing to Iran, for different industries, auto industries energy industry, shows that they do not believe at all that the failure of JCPOA is an option, ” Hamid Baeidinejad, ambassador of Iran in the United Kingdom, said at the press conference. “I’ll let you know what the decision is”. “We have concluded scores of development agreements with advanced countries of both East and West”. “Our greatest mission today is to accurately recognise the societies and the state of the world today, and to look at the areas in which we have been right or wrong and to cover the points of error with compensatory measures”.
Had we got engaged in a negotiation trying to bring everything on the table with Iran into the negotiation, we never would have gotten anywhere. Our people can not remain silent against dangers of the region; Iran’s missile program is defensive. It would still be continuing to do these other things.
“Whether you like it or not, we are going to strengthen our military capabilities which are necessary for deterrence”, Rouhani said in a speech marking the anniversary of the outbreak of Iran’s devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
At the United Nations this week, Trump hinted the US might pull out of the “embarrassing” six-nation agreement anyway.
In his speech, Trump said he “would always put America first” and that he expected leaders from across the world to likewise “put your countries first”. Trump “has not shared that decision (about the future of the deal) with anyone externally”, including British Prime Minister Theresa May, who asked, Tillerson said. “Previous presidents have made very similar statements and the clause is ‘if, ‘ ‘if North Korea attacks, ‘ ‘if North Korea takes these provocative actions.’ We may not have a choice”. So that’s not actually a surprise. Imperfect as it may be, defenders of the Iran deal still view it as a sign of progress and a potential diplomatic model for Pyongyang to consider. He railed against North Korean President Kim Jong Un as a “rocket man on a suicide mission”.
As much as the White House might object to Iran’s ballistic missile tests, as well as its continued support of Hezbollah and the Syrian regime, and its role in destabilizing Yemen, Sick said those criticisms misinterpret what the Iran deal was meant to do. Ironically, so has the Trump administration.
The chorus of worldwide support was countered by a succession of senior Trump aides who repeated the president’s objections to the pact in television interviews on Thursday. “They are very direct people”, says Philippe Besson, a Paris novelist whose new book, “A Character Out of a Novel”, describes Macron’s rise to power.
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