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| ‘It’s not up to single country to terminate Iran nuclear deal’ – EU foreign policy chief | ‘It’s not up to single country to terminate Iran nuclear deal’ – EU foreign policy chief |
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| The 2015 Iran nuclear deal is not a “bilateral agreement,” and it cannot be terminated by any single country, EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini said in response to Donald Trump’s announcement that he is not re-certifying the deal. | The 2015 Iran nuclear deal is not a “bilateral agreement,” and it cannot be terminated by any single country, EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini said in response to Donald Trump’s announcement that he is not re-certifying the deal. |
| “It is not a bilateral agreement. It does not belong to any single country and it is not up to any single country to terminate it,” Mogherini announced. | “It is not a bilateral agreement. It does not belong to any single country and it is not up to any single country to terminate it,” Mogherini announced. |
| “We cannot afford as an international community, as Europe for sure, to dismantle a nuclear agreement that is working,” she added. | |
| The Russian Foreign Ministry slammed Trump’s speech, saying that any use of “aggressive” rhetoric in international relations is “unacceptable” and is also “doomed to fail.” | |
| In its statement, the ministry stressed that any renewal of UN sanctions against Iran is “out of the question.” It further denounced the actions of the US administration as “vestiges of the past” that “are at odds with the modern norms of civilized communication between countries.” | |
| Israel called Trump’s move “very significant,” adding that it might actually lead to a war with Iran. “Iran is the new North Korea. We see where things are going,” Israeli Intelligence Minister Israel Katz told Israel’s Channel 2, speaking about the possibility of war. | |
| Saudi Arabia welcomed what it called “the resolute strategy announced by US President Donald Trump towards Iran and its aggressive approach.” | |
| The Kingdom said that Iran “exploited the economic benefits of lifting the sanctions” by speeding up the development of its missile program and boosting its support of various militant groups, including Hezbollah and the Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen, as reported by Saudi state news agency SPA. | |
| Earlier on Friday, US President Donald Trump announced that he is deferring the matter to the US Congress, so that it could amend the agreement and “strengthen its enforcement.” | |
| He once again claimed that Tehran committed “multiple violations” of the deal, despite the IAEA’s confirmation of Iran’s compliance. | He once again claimed that Tehran committed “multiple violations” of the deal, despite the IAEA’s confirmation of Iran’s compliance. |
| The US also imposed a fresh set of sanctions against the Islamic Republic, unrelated to its nuclear program. | The US also imposed a fresh set of sanctions against the Islamic Republic, unrelated to its nuclear program. |
| The UK, France and Germany for their part said in a joint statement that the respective deal is “in [their] joint national interest.” | The UK, France and Germany for their part said in a joint statement that the respective deal is “in [their] joint national interest.” |
| Even before the US president’s decision, some world powers have warned against the consequences of a US decision to withdraw from the agreement. | |
| “A termination of the Iran agreement would turn the Middle East into a region of hot crises,” and would “send a devastating signal for nuclear disarmament,” German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel was cited by Die Welt on Thursday. | |
| “Some states could understand a failure of the Iran agreement as a signal to provide themselves with nuclear weapons as fast as possible,” he added, apparently referring to North Korea. | |
| EU leaders “also have to tell the Americans that their behavior on the Iran issue will drive us Europeans into a common position with Russia and China against the USA,” the German foreign minister warned. | |
| On Friday, Beijing called on the US to maintain its commitment to the nuclear deal with Iran: “We believe this deal is important to ensuring the international nuclear nonproliferation regime and regional peace and stability. We hope all parties can continue to preserve and implement this deal,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement. | |
| Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday that it was hard to imagine how withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran could be legally implemented by the US. The deal was also approved by a UN resolution, he added. | |
| Last month, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said that certification is not part of the deal and is only “US internal procedure.” | |
| “It doesn’t absolve President Trump and the administration of the responsibility because the only authority that has been recognized in the nuclear deal to verify [compliance with the deal] is the IAEA,” Zarif said. |