Iran: We have ‘options’ if Trump kills nuke deal
TEHRAN (Basirat)- Iran says it has "options" in case President-elect Donald Trump breaks the nuclear deal between Tehran and the international community.
Iran says it has "options" in case President-elect Donald Trump breaks the nuclear deal between Tehran and the international community.
"Of course Iran’s options are not limited,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in Bratislava, Slovakia Thursday, according to Reuters.
"But our hope and our desire and our preference is for the full implementation of the nuclear agreement, which is not bilateral for one side to be able to scrap,” he added, during a news conference after meeting his Slovak counterpart Miroslav Lajcak.Iranian President Hasan Rouhani on Wednesday also said Trump could not overturn the landmark pact unilaterally.
"Iran’s understanding in the nuclear deal was that the accord was not concluded with one country or government but was approved by a resolution of the U.N. Security Council and there is no possibility it can be changed by a single government,” he told his cabinet, according to AFP.
"The United States no longer has the capacity to create Iranophobia and to create a consensus against Iran,” Rouhani added, claiming that "wrong policies” had weakened U.S. influence on the world stage.
The historic pact lifting sanctions on Iran in exchange for freezing its nuclear arms program was one of President Obama's signature foreign policy items. He announced the
But Trump has blasted the deal on the campaign trail. On Tuesday he called it "disastrous," vowing to dismantle it.
