Iran Says It Will Not Renegotiate Nuclear Deal

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters


“There will be no renegotiation and the (agreement) will not be reopened,” said Araqchi, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator at the talks.

01/15/2017 10:48 am ET

DUBAI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Iran will not renegotiate its nuclear agreement with world powers, even if it faces new U.S. sanctions after Donald Trump becomes president, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Sunday.

Trump, who will take office on Friday, has threatened to either scrap the agreement, which curbs Iran’s nuclear program and lifts sanctions against it, or seek a better deal.

“There will be no renegotiation and the (agreement) will not be reopened,” said Araqchi, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator at the talks that led to the agreement in 2015, quoted by the state news agency IRNA.

“We and many analysts believe that the (agreement) is consolidated. The new U.S. administration will not be able to abandon it,” Araqchi told a news conference in Tehran, held a year after the deal took effect.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/iran-nuclear-deal_us_587b9931e4b09281d0eb61c8

[yallerdawg]

1. What precedent would this be that America's word...

is only good until the next election?

Well - we're about to find out.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. The only question is what does Putin want in Iran and with this deal?

I am not an expert on that, who is here?

Putin now runs Trump, for real, so what does Putin want?

[RKP5637]

3. Daddy, daddy, what should I do, what do you want me to do?

[jimlup]

4. Trump is going to blunder his way into a war in the Middle East

its all but certain.

[bhikkhu]

6. The JCPOA was completed on July 14, 2015

It was a formal agreement between Iran, the US, France, Russia, China, the UK, Germany, and the EU.

The US could back out, if congress and the president are so inclined, but the effect would only be to isolate our own country. Iran would continue to honor the agreement, as would the other parties. The largest benefactor of the US breaking off would be Russia, as they would likely be very happy to fill any gap we leave on the world stage, politically and economically.