Iran’s supreme leader warns against USA ‘deceit and treachery’

Making a sudden turn, the United States imposed new sanctions against 11 individuals and entities involved in Iran’s ballistic missile programme just hours after announcing an end to the economic sanctions over Iran’s nuclear programme this weekend and a deal to exchange four imprisoned American citizens for seven Iranians in us detention, reports said.

Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari said Monday that Iran will respond by boosting efforts in its legal ballistic missile program and promoting its defense capabilities.

Relations between the United States and Iran appear to be improving. We are committed to continuing our work in an impartial, factual and non-political way.

Iran said its activities were purely peaceful for energy production and medical purposes but several countries suspected it was seeking to produce nuclear weapons.

Administration officials say that if the Iranian government were to go back on the deal now, it would take more than a year for the country to create a nuclear bomb.

The top US, Iran and European Union diplomats celebrated the deal that was reached after years of hard negotiations and setbacks.

Great news, everyone: Barack Obama has saved the world through “smart, patient and disciplined” diplomacy once again.

A fifth American, Matthew Trevithick, was also released by Iran, though his release was not part of the negotiated prisoner swap.

Obama said that, despite the prisoner swap and the implementation of the nuclear deal, “there are profound differences” between the two countries.

Preparing for taking the measures under the JCPOA needs coordination with Iranian officials, which made the visit of the IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano to Tehran necessary, Bayat said. Charges against 8 Iranians accused of violating American sanctions in the United States were either dropped or reduced on Saturday in a complex deal according to informed sources on the matter.

Obama campaigned for the White House in 2008 on a promise to engage with USA enemies including Iran and Cuba.

Lifting the Western economic sanctions will enable Iran to access $100 billion in frozen assets, usher in a new era for the nation’s crippled economy, and provide other nations with access to Iran’s oil and gas and its marketplace of 80 million consumers.