Iran Press- Iran/ The Iranian foreign minister took to Twitter on Thursday to respond to statements by the US administration’s new special representative for Iran, Brian Hook, who speaking at the Hudson Institute think tank claimed that Washington is seeking to negotiate a new treaty with Tehran to include its defence programme and regional role, Press TV reported.
Hook said: "The new deal that we hope to be able to sign with Iran, and it will not be a personal agreement between two governments like the last one; We seek a treaty."
The remarks came just months after US President Donald Trump fulfilled his election campaign promise and withdrew his country from a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal with Iran despite objections from the other parties – Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China – and the entire world community.
Washington’s exit from the landmark Iran deal was interpreted as yet another sign of the US’s growing unilateralism under Trump.
Zarif rejected Hook’s “wrong” interpretation of the Iran deal, saying the agreement – officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – is an “international” one, which has been endorsed by a UN Security Council Resolution.
Benjamin, 66, is the co-founder of Code Pink, which introduces itself as a 'grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S.-funded wars and occupations, IRNA reported.
In August, the US State Department formed an “Iran Action Group” to coordinate and run an aggressive policy in relation to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Hook is the US. Special Envoy to Iran and also an advisor to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. 'No more war. Peace with Iran,' Benjamin shouted as she suddenly stepped on the stage after Hook’s speech.
She was on stage about one minute before being pulled out by security forces handcuffed.
She criticized US withdrawal from the historic nuclear deal officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) which was signed in 2015 between Iran and the six major world powers including US, Britain, Russia, France and China plus Germany.
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