On Monday the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow is not going to support any attempts made by Washington to modify the Iran nuclear deal. Lavrov also added that backing off a nuclear deal now will complicate diplomacy and chances for a similar deal to be signed with North Korea over Korea’s nuclear weapon program.
Russia’s statement comes few days after President Donald Trump announced that he “would put sanctions against Iran for the last time in order to give Washington and its European allies a leverage to fix the “terrible flaws” of the 2015 nuclear deal signed by the Obama administration.”
“We will not support what the United States is trying to do, changing the wording of the agreement, incorporating things that will be absolutely unacceptable for Iran,” Lavrov spoke at a news conference in Moscow.
The Russian diplomat stated that Russia will do everything to preserve the existing Iran nuclear deal that lifted sanctions made to Iran in exchange for Iran to give up their nuclear program. Lavrov also warned the U.S. that the next steps the U.S. makes with the Iranian nuclear accord are detrimental to the future dialogue with North Korea.
Reuters reported that Lavrov suggested Pyongyang would look at how Iran had been treated by Washington and wonder if any deal it did with the United States on its own missile and nuclear program would hold or also be called into question.
“If the deal is put aside and Iran is told, ‘you keep up with your obligations or we will impose sanctions again’, then you have to see it from North Korea’s point of view,” commented Lavrov, applying that the major powers should approach the two countries’ nuclear programs in the same manner.
“They are being promised that sanctions will be lifted if they give up their nuclear program. They will give it up, but no one will lift the sanctions against Pyongyang.”
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