Iran president: Trump won’t be able to harm the nuclear deal

A Trump administration could also attempt to dismantle it by more strictly enforcing the existing agreement, closely monitoring Iran so that the slightest failure to meet its obligations effectively cancels the deal.

Iran will not let U.S. President-elect Donald Trump rip up the nuclear deal it signed with world powers, President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday.

“Iran is the only country that, as our supreme leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] stated, would neither mourn nor celebrate [Trump’s] coming to power”, Rouhani said on Tuesday at Tehran University. The oppression and mass arrests of the students was one day before bestowing Richard Nixon, then vice-president of the U.S., an honorary doctorate in Law at Tehran University.

“General Mattis and General Flynn, who are designated for Secretary of Defense and National Security Advisor respectively, have long expressed concern about Iran and ineffective USA policy”, Whiton said.

“America.is our enemy, we have no doubt about this”. Hard-liners in Iran never wanted the nuclear deal, seeing it as a humiliation and an assault on Iran’s national sovereignty. He may desire to rip up the deal. “Will our nation allow this?”

“The American people know the Iran deal is bad”, Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., told The Daily Beast.

The deal negotiated between the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany with Iran past year is created to lift economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for access and supervision for the country’s nuclear program.

But that has not materialized, thanks to remaining sanctions over Iran’s ballistic missile program and terrorism, as well as lingering fears among Western companies about incurring USA penalties for doing business with Iran. The agreement imposed strict limits on Iran’s nuclear activity in exchange for the end of wide-ranging oil, trade and financial sanctions. The White House deemed the bill unnecessary but said it did not violate the worldwide accord.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said any party can leave the nuclear agreement. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the deal is “the common and joint responsibility of all the parties involved, and it should not be affected by any change in the domestic situations of the countries concerned”.

If Iran does not change course, the president-elect should make clear he is prepared to impose a new round of comprehensive secondary sanctions against Iran – and then to walk away, with cause, from the JCPOA. Iran says that violates the nuclear deal and that it will retaliate.

Additionally, according to intelligence documents from Germany’s 16 federal states, Iran has since January attempted to covertly acquire nuclear-related materials, as well as to advance its chemical and biological weapons capabilities, which the nuclear accord does not address.

“The Senate’s unanimous 10-year extension of the Iran Sanctions Act shows that Congress takes very seriously Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for terrorism, and regional aggression”.