Hassan Rouhani has announced that “long-lasting victory” was achieved against the U.S. and the major world powers. The Iranian President said that the U.S. had failed to undermine a nuclear deal between Tehran and the six major world powers.
On Friday U.S. President Donald Trump delivered an ultimatum to the European signatories of the deal to fix the “terrible flaws” of the agreement with Iran, or the U.S. would pull out.
“The American administration has failed to undermine the nuclear deal … Trump, despite his repeated efforts, has failed to undermine the accord … The deal is a long-lasting victory for Iran,” President Hassan Rouhani said in a live broadcast on the Iranian State TV station.
Iran said it will stick to the agreement as long as the other signatories respect it, and if Washington pulls out the deal is off. The deal implied that Iran will stop its nuclear program if the world powers lift the economic sanctions imposed against Iran. The agreement was signed in 2015 as a foreign policy achievement of the Obama administration. Other signatories of the deal are UK, Russia, France, China, and Germany.
According to The Independent, President Trump has repeatedly claimed that the deal was too lenient and that Iran had broken parts of the agreement, agreeing to waive sanctions against Iran for the last time on Friday, to give the U.S. and European allies a final chance to amend the pact. The international powers feared Iran would use this to create a nuclear weapon.
The European countries that were part of the deal have criticized Trump’s ultimatum and are trying to strengthen the pact with a separate agreement within the next 4 months.
Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported that the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif by phone that implementation of the deal had not been “derailed” but would face “some new complicating factors”. He also urged Iran to remain calm and continue to fulfill its obligations under the deal.
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