Iran’s Khamenei warns against US ‘deceit’ in nuclear deal

American prisoners in Iran have been released through “smart” diplomacy and now America and the entire world is more secure because of the recently-concluded nuclear deal, U.S. President Barack Obama said Sunday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency confirms Tehran has fulfilled its commitment in the nuclear deal.

He added that “expressions by some United States politicians in recent days are matter of pessimism”, without elaborating.

Rouhani wrote to Khamenei on Monday to provide an update after the United Nations atomic watchdog declared that Iran had met conditions stipulated in the nuclear deal.

We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism, and for its ballistic missile program.

The new U.S. sanctions imposed against Iran over its ballistic missile program is a scheme by Zionist neoconservatives in the Obama administration to protect Israel’s interests, an investigative journalist in Washington says. Non-nuclear economic sanctions imposed by the USA remain in place, forbidding American citizens and firms from trading with Iran. Iran denied the charge. Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected in Tehran next week at the head of an 800-member delegation, and next month Rouhani plans to visit Italy and France, which were major economic partners in the pre-sanctions era.

The president’s speech came at a time when his government was lifting billions of dollars in worldwide sanctions on Iran as part of the global nuclear accord.

Shahin Armin, an Iranian-American entrepreneur, looks ahead to business in this new era.

Although the Iran Nuclear Deal was negotiated separately from the prisoner exchange, USA officials said the conclusion of the accords helped bring the issue of the prisoners’ freedom to the forefront, the Associated Press reported via Fox News.

Obama said he was hopeful the events signaled an opportunity for Iran to work more cooperatively with the rest of the world.

“Iran’s missile program has never been created to be capable of carrying nuclear weapons”, Mr Ansari was quoted as saying by local media.

On Saturday the US and European Union lifted sanctions against Iran after a report by the worldwide nuclear watchdog said the country had complied with all of the nuclear agreement’s requirements, including the dismantling of the reactor at its Arak nuclear facility.