Posted on 09/28/2017 12:27:17 PM PDT by Hadean
ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran may abandon the nuclear deal it reached with six major powers if the United States decides to withdraw from it, Iranian foreign minister told Qatar’s al Jazeera TV in New York.
U.S. President Donald Trump has called the 2015 deal an “embarrassment”. The deal is supported by the other major powers that negotiated it with Iran and its collapse could trigger a regional arms race and worsen tensions in the Middle East.
“If Washington decides to pull out of the deal, Iran has the option of withdrawal and other options,” al Jazeera TV wrote on its Twitter feed, quoting Mohammad Javad Zarif.
“Washington will be in a better position if it remains committed to the deal,” the network quoted Zarif as saying.
Trump is considering whether the accord serves U.S. security interests. He faces a mid-October deadline for certifying that Iran is complying with the pact.
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The prospect that Washington could renege on the deal has worried some of the U.S. allies that helped negotiate it. French President Emmanuel Macron said last week that there was no alternative to the nuclear accord.
If Trump, who has called the accord “the worst deal ever negotiated”, does not recertify it by Oct. 16, Congress has 60 days to decide whether to reimpose sanctions suspended under the accord.
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We shouldn’t have had this deal in the first place. But how can you put the toothpaste back in the container? They got their billions released before Trump took office.
Go ahead, and while you’re at it, wipe your terrorist a$$es with it, because that’s all it’s been good for from the beginning anyway.
“Iran may abandon the nuclear deal it reached with six major powers if the United States decides to withdraw from it, Iranian foreign minister told Qatar’s al Jazeera TV in New York.”
Damn, is Obama creating these comments? They never signed the thing! Now they are threatening us they may drop something they never ratified?
Hey Achmed, keep a keen eye on your puffy NORK buddy. Previews of coming attractions.
taunt away Iran.
Keep it up.
glowing glass.
Iran can take a number. North Korea is in the front of the line.
Iran has already broken the deal.
Who are they kidding?
Tear it up. It was worse than worthless anyway.
Apparently Iran is at a point that, with the continued help from North Korea, they can abandon the pretense of this treaty.
I hope these lunatic moozlum losers return the pallets of our cash that the traitor and loser-in-chief, nobama, gave them.
Nobody knows what Iran is doing, already. If they’re not actively making nuclear weapons, I’ll be the first to be completely stunned. Bad deal for Israel and USA.
Isn’t this like the Golden State Warriors saying the won’t go to the White House after President Trump already uninvited them?
They stuck by one part of it. They accepted the pallet of $100 bills that Obama sent over!
Good point. Sucks to hear the truth though.
Obama is an enemy of the United States of America. He and the complicit morons like Corker should be in prison for life. $150 billion to madmen who have sworn their commitment to the destruction of their nation. This alone should have ended McConnell’s career.
I tend to agree with you there.
They’re too fortified. Anything short of a nuclear blast would be ineffective.
So where’s the downside. As I recall this deal removed the sanctions and allows self-inspections.
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