Iran Press/ America: During an Atlantic Council FrontPage event broadcast on Monday, Clinton gave her views on how the next US administration should move forward with several domestic and international issues, among them the Iran policy.
Clinton, who served as secretary of state under ex-president Barack Obama, said: "The Trump administration could have tried to fix what it viewed as problems with the deal instead of abruptly pulling the US out of the accord in May 2018."
One consequence of Washington’s withdrawal from the Obama-era Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was that Iran and China strengthened their relations, she claimed.
The politician highlighted a 25-year partnership agreement that Iran and China are working to finalize and said: "I put that directly at the door of the Trump administration— that pulled the United States out of the Iran agreement that I began the negotiations for as secretary of state, and my successor John Kerry was able to bring to a very important conclusion."
Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, said: "The next US administration should thus return to the Obama-era deal as a means of restricting the Iranian nuclear program and preventing an arms race in the Middle East."
"I think it would be in the United States’ interest to rejoin the Iran agreement, just as it would be to rejoin the climate agreement, which was similarly abandoned by Washington under Trump," she added.
She, however, cast doubt on whether Iran would be receptive to that, saying: "I think they may have moved on."
Biden, the Democratic nominee for President, has increasingly signaled that he wants to renegotiate the international agreement with Iran. 207/209
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