Iran Tells North Korea: Trump Can Cancel Deal Within Hours
TEHRAN (Dispatches) –Iran has warned North Korea against trusting U.S. President Donald Trump, saying he could cancel their denuclearization agreement within hours.
Tehran cited its own experience in offering the advice to Pyongyang a month after Washington withdrew from a similar deal with Iran.
"We don’t know what type of person the North Korean leader is negotiating with. It is not clear that he would not cancel the agreement before returning home,” Iranian government spokesman Muhammad Bagher Nobakht was quoted as saying by IRNA new agency.
Nobakht questioned Trump’s credibility. "This man does not represent the American people, and they will surely distance themselves from him at the next elections,” he said.
As well as pulling the United States out of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, Trump disowned on Saturday a joint communique issued by Group of Seven leaders, just hours after he had left their summit for the meeting with Kim.
The occupying regime of Israel, which has hailed Trump’s tough line on Iran, praised his summit with Kim Jong Un. "This is an important step in the effort to strip the Korean peninsula of nuclear weaponry,” Zionist PM Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.
The Zionist regime is believed to have the region’s sole atomic arsenal.
Trump has said would be open to striking a new nuclear accord with Tehran. However, he says the existing deal negotiated under his predecessor Barack Obama had failed to address Iran’s ballistic missile program.
On top of this, he also cited the terms under which international inspectors can visit suspect Iranian nuclear sites and "sunset” clauses, under which limits on the nuclear program start to expire after 10 years.
Trump has insisted any deal with North Korea should include irreversible and verifiable denuclearization.
Washington will reimpose a wide array of Iran-related sanctions after the expiry of 90- and 180-day wind-down periods, including measures aimed at the oil sector and transactions with its central bank.
Other remaining signatories of the deal - Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia- have criticized the U.S. exit and are still trying to salvage the accord.
Tehran cited its own experience in offering the advice to Pyongyang a month after Washington withdrew from a similar deal with Iran.
"We don’t know what type of person the North Korean leader is negotiating with. It is not clear that he would not cancel the agreement before returning home,” Iranian government spokesman Muhammad Bagher Nobakht was quoted as saying by IRNA new agency.
Nobakht questioned Trump’s credibility. "This man does not represent the American people, and they will surely distance themselves from him at the next elections,” he said.
As well as pulling the United States out of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, Trump disowned on Saturday a joint communique issued by Group of Seven leaders, just hours after he had left their summit for the meeting with Kim.
The occupying regime of Israel, which has hailed Trump’s tough line on Iran, praised his summit with Kim Jong Un. "This is an important step in the effort to strip the Korean peninsula of nuclear weaponry,” Zionist PM Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.
The Zionist regime is believed to have the region’s sole atomic arsenal.
Trump has said would be open to striking a new nuclear accord with Tehran. However, he says the existing deal negotiated under his predecessor Barack Obama had failed to address Iran’s ballistic missile program.
On top of this, he also cited the terms under which international inspectors can visit suspect Iranian nuclear sites and "sunset” clauses, under which limits on the nuclear program start to expire after 10 years.
Trump has insisted any deal with North Korea should include irreversible and verifiable denuclearization.
Washington will reimpose a wide array of Iran-related sanctions after the expiry of 90- and 180-day wind-down periods, including measures aimed at the oil sector and transactions with its central bank.
Other remaining signatories of the deal - Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia- have criticized the U.S. exit and are still trying to salvage the accord.