ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iran warned Wednesday that US President-elect Donald Trump must abide by an important nuclear deal that the United States and five other countries signed with Tehran last year.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif noted that his country has no political relations with the United States, but warned that whoever occupies the US presidency must abide by international commitments.
“The US president is obliged to implement whatever his country has agreed to as an international, multilateral commitment under the nuclear deal.” Zarif said on a tour of Bucharest.
During campaigning Trump, who beat Hillary Clinton to become America’s next president, had threatened to tear up the nuclear deal signed between Iran and the so-called P5+1, which includes the United States.
Last year Iran reached the nuclear deal with the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany, an agreement which aims to stop Iran from developing parts of its nuclear program that could be used for military purposes.
Iran agreed in return for the lifting of US and other international sanctions.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani also reassured his government about the deal, telling his cabinet on Wednesday that the agreement is safeguarded by a United Nation resolution and cannot be abrogated by any one country.
“Iran’s wisdom over the nuclear agreement was that it ratified the nuclear deal not with one country, not with one state, but with a Security Council resolution that cannot be changed with a single country’s decision.”
Iran’s economy had suffered dearly under the US-led sanctions. Rouhani ran his election campaign in 2013 on the promise of reaching a favorable agreement with Western countries over his country’s nuclear program.
Rouhani’s deputy chief of staff for political affairs, Hamid Aboutalebi, said on his Twitter account that he had noted changes in Trump’s speech just moments after he won the election.
“The image that Trump depicted in his victory speech was different from his image during the election campaign. This point has to be noted,” Aboutalebi said, commenting on Trump’s conciliatory speech after winning the polls.
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