Sanders also defended Barack Obama’s key foreign affairs legacy in an interview
with The Intercept published on Friday.
The senator, who competed with Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Party
presidential primaries in 2016, said that the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and
the 5+1 group must be protected
"I think that one of the areas that we have got to rethink, in terms of American
foreign policy, is our position vis-a-vis Iran and Saudi Arabia,” he said.
He said, "For whatever reason — and I think we know some of the reasons having
to do with a three-letter word called oil — the United States has kind of looked
aside at the fact that Saudi Arabia is an incredibly anti-democratic country and
has played a very bad role internationally, but we have sided with them time and
time and time again, and yet Iran, which just held elections, we are …
continuing to put them down.”
In his speech at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump
said that the 2015 nuclear deal signed by Iran, the European Union, Germany and
the five permanent members of the UN Security Council was an "embarrassment” and
hinted that he may not recertify the agreement when it comes up for a
mid-October deadline.
In response Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote a tweet saying,
"Trump’s ignorant hate speech belongs in medieval times-not the 21st Century UN
-. Fake empathy for Iranians fools no one.”
French President Emmanuel Macron defended the nuclear deal in his speech at the
UN, warning "renouncing it would be a grave error”.
Elsewhere, Sanders said that the U.S. should rethink its foreign policy.
SOURCE:TehranTimes