Iranians protest Trump’s decision on nuclear deal, fearing renewed sanctions

When Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince visited France in April, he oozed confidence that President Donald Trump would pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal which Riyadh has long opposed.

The Kremlin meanwhile accused Trump of “veiled protectionism” by pulling out of the deal.

The statement noted that the United Nations Security Council had unanimously approved the Iran deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (or J.C.P.O.A.), in 2015, and said that it “remains the binding global legal framework for the resolution of the dispute about the Iranian nuclear programme”. That means the deal represented the whims of the former President, not binding US foreign policy. “We’re out of the deal”, he said.

American citizens are working on the IAEA inspection team, but are based in Vienna, not on the ground in Iran.

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Tehran dismissed Netanyahu as “the boy who cried wolf”, and called his presentation propaganda.

Analysts said that Trump’s harsh rhetoric had scared away potential investors, way before his announcement Tuesday that sanctions would be reimposed. About 90 percent of North Korea’s trade goes to or through China. How do you see President Trump’s decision?

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson also made a last-minute dash to Washington but did not get to see the president. But the consistent flouting of agreements that our country is a party to risks eroding America’s credibility, and puts us at odds with the world’s major powers.

The SecDef said diplomacy is his first choice, but “we are always updating those plans” for the military option.

But Bolton said that cooperation with Europe on Iran was not over, and that Trump had waited until the last minute to make his final decision, listening to different views on the issue, including from American allies.

Companies will also have to assess whether they could face revived secondary sanctions, which would target sectors of the Iranian economy, including energy, petrochemicals, shipping, financial and banking, experts say.

The word of the USA in negotiations is now worth a good deal less than it was before Mr Trump became President.

“But we can not allow them to have nuclear weapons”, Trump said on Thursday. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said he was sending his foreign minister to the remaining countries but warned there was only a short time to negotiate with them.

Considering European signatories still support the deal, Iran said it would still comply and there are six months before the sanctions unfold, so there was still time to work something out, Melek said.

“Europeans are slowly discovering Trump’s “hot potato” doctrine”, she said, describing how Trump’s habit of provoking unnecessary diplomatic battles then daring others to resolve them.

The Iran nuclear deal, another example of Obama’s handiwork, was dangerously advantageous to Iran, freeing it from economic sanctions in return for nearly nothing. Nevertheless, the governments of the European Union are determined to try to keep the agreement going for as long as we possibly can. Yet the Europeans realized he was unpersuaded. “I think we’re supported on prices until there’s more clarity”.

“You have acknowledged that”, Durbin told Mattis.

After Trump announced a unilateral decision to stop participation in the deal, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called the move illegal, illegitimate and a violation of worldwide law, but promised that his country would continue to comply with the deal’s conditions despite the United States pullout.