Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said he would not let US President-elect Donald Trump to rip up the nuclear agreement between Tehran and the International community, warning of unspecified repercussions if Washington reneges on the agreement. “The Americans will try to put us under pressure as much as they can. But we have to resist this and find answers and we will find answers. They may break their word and they will break their word. The most recent case is the extension of the ISA which is in violation of the nuclear agreement. If what the U.S. Congress has approved is given approval by the executive, then it will be a flagrant violation of the JCPOA and we will react to it with the strongest possible means,” Hassan Rouhani, Iranian President said.
Trump said during his campaign for the White House that he would scrap the nuclear agreement with Iran, under which Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear program in return for the lifting of economic sanctions, an agreement Trump described as “the worst deal ever negotiated. US Secretary of State John Kerry tried to reassure Washington’s partners in the agreement, as well as the Islamic Republic, that he does not believe Trump would ‘scrap the agreement’, which the American top diplomat ‘helped avoid an immediate conflict’. “And what I know we avoided when we came together and passed that agreement was we avoided an immediate conflict in the absence of an agreement, so I’m convinced the world is safer and I think the Trump administration will come to that conclusion,” Kerry said.
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also warned against any changes to the nuclear deal after Trump’s comments in June, and said last month that an extension of a US sanction regime, which was passed in the US Senate last week, would be viewed as a violation of the international accord.