Posted on 01/19/2017 10:58:42 PM PST by Olog-hai
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump will be “surprised” by Iran if he annuls the nuclear deal between the Islamic Republic, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday, according to the Trend news agency.
“As I said earlier, Trump will be surprised if he tries to renegotiate the deal,” Zarif was quoted as having told the Iranian IRNA news agency.
“We believe that nuclear deal is an international one and we are not worried about it at all,” he continued.
“We are not going to be wary of what Trump does and we will have our options,” Zarif added, noting that the nuclear deal is an international accord and all parties should comply with it. …
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The problem is that there really is no “Obama’s agreement”. What there is is an agreement between the UN and Iran which Obama negotiated. When Obama leaves the scene, the UN-Iran deal will remain. At that point, Trump’s only leverage will be whatever leverage he has within/over the UN. There is no deal signed by Obama and Iran for Trump to walk in and tear up. Instead, undoing the deal would mean undoing the UN and the will of the “international community”. That’s a heavy lift, but you get the feeling that that’s where Trump is heading.
It will not be a surprise to everyone who knew the deal with Iran was a bad deal.
What the Mullahs in Tehran may do is instead of waiting to the end of when the harshest oversight on their nuclear efforts ends, they will announce Trump’s cancelling the deal does not matter because they already have their nuclear weapons.
Bump
They are going to surprise us?
Are they all going to commit mass suicide?
Trump’s pretty unlikely to cancel the deal unless Iran violates it. Besides, Iran got what it wanted, 12 billion in cash.
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