Obama hopes Trump will rethink certain campaign vows

Vali Zarrabieh, chairman of Tehran-based Saman Bank, agreed and said he expected Trump to decide on a pragmatic Iran policy, beneficial to the American people.

“Iran exercised prudence concerning the nuclear agreement as it confirmed JCPOA as a U.N. Security Council Resolution, not as an agreement with one government”, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a statement, according to the government-controlled Iranian Students News Agency.

“The (U.S.) administration will come to the point that they have to honour the (agreement) and that’s the only right way forward”, he said.

They’ve also, Phillips notes, been caught trying to covertly buy illicit dual-use nuclear technology in Germany, which violates Iran’s commitments under the nuclear deal to obtain worldwide approval for all nuclear purchases.

“What we have now is a grim lesson in human suffering”, Royce said.

Russian Federation calls for the expansion of all-out cooperation with Iran particularly in the energy and nuclear fields, she added.

The Islamic Republic is prepared for any development, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said commenting on Republican Donald Trump’s victory in the USA presidential election.

Summary⎙ Print After the EU’s move to throw its weight behind the nuclear deal, Iran hopes the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and the lifting of worldwide sanctions will not be affected by Trump’s presidency.

“The Iran Sanctions Act has served as the backbone of our Iran policy for two decades and ultimately helped force Iran to the negotiating table”, Deutch said.

The Iran deal poses a direct national security threat. One was an unchanged 10-year extension, another tied the extension to additional aid dollars for Israel, and a third, from Corker, included additional sanctions over Iran’s ballistic missile tests, cyberespionage and theft, and the Revolutionary Guard Corps, as well as a global prohibition on any dollar-denominated transactions with Iran.

But Republican lawmakers seem unlikely to pay the report much heed, and several of Mr. Trump’s key advisers have aligned with an entirely different advocacy group that stands in stark opposition to the National Iranian American Council. Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a critic of the agreement, said Trump is “likely to enforce the Iran deal but to treat any violation of the deal – no matter how small – as grounds to re-impose sanctions” allowed under the pact.

Rafizadeh wrote: “Turning a blind eye to Iran’s violations will only further empower and embolden Tehran to pursue its nuclear and hegemonic ambitions; ignore United Nations resolutions and worldwide laws; scuttle USA foreign policy objectives and damage security interests”. Additionally, the Iranian regime may be found to be in non-compliance, due to several waivers and exemptions already granted to them.

Worse, German intelligence indicates that the Iranians are also seeking items – via front companies operating from the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and China – that could be used to make illegal chemical and biological weapons.

Rather than focusing on the reaction to the US election, the central bank must “implement good and consistent policies” and work to make Iran’s economy “resilient to shocks”, Ghorbani said.

In September, Iran expert Farideh Farhi, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, told Courthouse News that Republican posturing on the Iran nuclear deal is part of an effort to sustain antagonism toward Iran, creating “political capital” to undermine the landmark deal under a new administration.