Iran Press-According to IRNA news agency Iran's intelligence minister Mahmoud Alavi said on Tuesday, addressing a local ceremony that by withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the US president broke a multilateral agreement and brought discredit fro the US at the international scene,
He referred to Trump's offer for direct talks with Iran, and said that even if he reaccepts the JCPOA, there is no guarantee for his remaining loyal to the deal.
Alavi said that the US will pay for its exit from the nuclear deal.
The Iranian nation has always given a crushing response to aggressors, he added in reaction to the US officials' threatening rhetoric.
On May8, 2013 , Trump called the nuclear accord - or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) as it is formally known - a "horrible, one-sided deal that should have never, ever been made" and withdraw from the deal.
As quoted by Reuters , Last night in a televised address , Rouhani said there could be no talks as long as Washington was reneging on the deal."
“If you stab someone with a knife and then you say you want talks, then the first thing you have to do is remove the knife,” Rouhani said.
“We are always in favour of diplomacy and talks ... But talks need honesty,” Rouhani said. “Trump’s call for direct talks is only for domestic consumption in America ahead of elections ... and to create chaos in Iran.”
European allies tried and failed to persuade Trump not to walk out of the 2015 agreement, under which Iran agreed to curbs on its nuclear programme in return for the lifting of international sanctions. Rouhani said Washington would come to rue a move that had been rejected by other countries.
“America will regret imposing sanctions on Iran ... They’re already isolated in the world. They are imposing sanctions on Iranian children, patients and the nation,” he said.
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