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DonViejo

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Sat Jan 13, 2018, 10:19 AM Jan 2018

Iran rejects Trump's demand for changing nuclear deal

Source: Associated Press



By ASSOCIATED PRESS 01/13/2018 07:36 AM EST

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said Saturday it won’t accept any changes to its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers after President Donald Trump vowed to pull out of the accord in a few months if European allies did not fix its “terrible flaws.”

In a statement carried by the state-run IRNA news agency, the Foreign Ministry said Iran “will not accept any change in the deal, neither now nor in future,” adding that it will “not take any action beyond its commitments.”

It also said Iran would not allow the deal to be linked to other issues, after Trump suggested that the sanctions relief under the deal be tied to Iran limiting its long-range ballistic missile program.

Trump on Friday extended the waivers of key economic sanctions that were lifted under the agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear program. But he said he would work with European allies to remove so-called “sunset clauses” that allow Iran to gradually resume advanced nuclear activities in the next decade.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/13/iran-rejects-trump-changing-nuclear-deal-339516

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