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With the announcement, President Trump spelled out a new strategy for dealing with Iran, including new sanctions.
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Iranian
President Hassan Rouhani said Friday that Iran will "stick to" the
international nuclear weapons agreement as written and that President
Trump's efforts to scuttle it leave the United States "more isolated
than ever."
Trump said on Friday that
he would not re-certify the two-year-old agreement to Congress because
Iran is allegedly not living up to the spirit of the deal and has
committed “multiple violations.” Trump says that if Congress can’t come
up with new legislation, he will terminate the Obama-era pact.
In a 22-minute response on Iranian TV,
Rouhani said Trump apparently does not realize that a U.S. president
cannot unilaterally scrap a deal negotiated among many nations and
certified by the United Nations.
The deal, formally
known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of action (JCPOA), was struck in
2015 following negotiations by China, France, Germany, Russia, the
United Kingdom, the European Union and Iran.
"No
president can revoke an international document backed by the U.N. on
his own," he said. "America took a hostile position against an
international deal (and) once again the European Union also took a firm
position against the U.S. America is now is more than ever isolated."
The
Iranian leader also said Iran will not amend or change the deal and
that Iran would "will continue to stick to" the deal "as long as our
rights are provided and our needs are met."
Trump has called for renegotiating what he has described as the "horrible" agreement reached during the Obama administration.
Trump's
remarks, he said, "showed the JCPOA is much stronger than what this
gentleman thought of the deal in the presidential campaign."
Rouhani
also pre-empted any attempt by the U.S. to try to use the increased
tension as leverage to negotiate any other broader defense pact, such as
limiting Iranian missile development.
He vowed that Iran would strengthen, not reduce, its conventional defense capability, including missiles.
"Our
weapons are for deterrence and defense, and we will continue to grow
our defense capability," he said. Trump's action, he said, had only
served to unite the Iranian people.
Rouhani also
chided Trump for referring to the Persian Gulf as the "Arabian Gulf,"
which Saudi Arabia prefers, noting that international maps, and
even U.S. military maps, refer to the waterway as the Persian Gulf.
In
addition, he charged that Trump does not seem to understand the past
history of U.S. involvement in Iran, particularly the overthrow by the
CIA of the democratically-elected president of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh,
in 1953 and his replacement by the Western-backed Shah Mohammad Reza
Bahlavi.
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