Top Iranian diplomat: Options if US pulls out of nuclear accord are 'not pleasant'
Source: The Hill
BY KYLE BALLUCK - 04/22/18 09:00 AM EDT
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tehran has "many options" if the U.S. pulls out of a nuclear agreement, adding that those options are "not pleasant."
“The reason that President Trump has not withdrawn from the deal over the past 15 months in spite of the fact that he did not like the deal has been the fact that everybody has advised the administration that this is not a bilateral agreement between Iran and the United States and withdrawing from it would be seen by the international community as an indication that the United States is not a reliable partner," Zarif said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“Iran has many options and those options are not pleasant,” he said, adding that Iran's "nuclear activities" are ready to be resumed at a "much greater speed." Zarif also said there is no reason for Iran to remain in the agreement with other western powers if the accord's benefits “start to diminish.”
He added that Iran would not accept an agreement between the U.S. and its allies to address some of Trump’s concerns. Trump, who came into office vowing to tear up the “worst deal ever negotiated,” has set a May 12 deadline to improve the accord.
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