Iran Leader Says Trump ‘Bullying’ Those in Nuclear Deal

• Iran Leader Says Trump ‘Bullying’ Those in Nuclear Deal
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  Iran’s foreign minister says that European signers to the nuclear deal need to salvage the pact and stand up to Trump.
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  Iran’s foreign minister says the world needs to stand up to Trump and save the nation’s nuclear deal after the U.S. exited last month. U.S. President Donald Trump left the 2015 agreement in May which mandated that Iran drastically minimize its enriched uranium projects in exchange and in exchange major economies would lift heavy sanctions imposed on the nation in place for decades.
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  Those who remain in the deal – France, Germany, Britain, Russia, and China – still see the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran deal, as the option for Tehran and the world and are still trying to salvage it.
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  In a letter from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to his counterparts, he asked “the remaining signatories and other trade partners” to “make up for Iran’s losses” caused by the U.S. exit, in order to save the deal.
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  “The JCPOA (nuclear deal) does not belong to its signatories, so one party can reject it based on domestic policies or political differences with a former ruling administration,” Zarif said in his letter, parts of which were published by the state news agency IRNA on Sunday.
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  However, the foreign minister reminded the other signing nations that it was agreed upon by all signatories after, “meticulous, sensitive and balanced multilateral talks”, and could not be renegotiated as the United States demands.
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  He said the U.S. made an “illegal withdrawal” from the deal and is using “bullying methods to bring other governments in line” effectively discrediting the rule of law in an international arena.
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  Iran’s top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has announced a series of conditions for the European affiliates of the JCPOA if they want his country to stay in the deal, including ways to safeguard Iran’s trade and oil sales.
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