{"id":29817,"date":"2017-01-17T21:20:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T21:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=29817"},"modified":"2017-01-17T21:20:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T21:20:16","slug":"obama-warns-trump-not-to-jettison-iran-nuke-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=29817","title":{"rendered":"Obama warns Trump not to jettison Iran nuke deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"133544Obama_(4)\"Afp, Washington: US President Barack Obama on Monday marked the first anniversary of the nuclear deal with Iran by emphasising its “significant and concrete results” and warning against undoing a pact supported by the world's major powers.<\/p>\n

In language that seemed clearly directed at incoming president Donald Trump, who is set to take office on Friday, a White House statement said “the United States must remember that this agreement was the result of years of work, and represents an agreement between the world's major powers — not simply the United States and Iran.”<\/p>\n

It said the deal had “achieved significant, concrete results in making the United States and the world a safer place” and “verifiably prevents Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.”<\/p>\n

Such a diplomatic solution, it added, was “far preferable to an unconstrained Iranian nuclear program or another war in the Middle East.”<\/p>\n

Trump has often denounced the nuclear deal, and in a Sunday interview with the Times of London and Bild newspaper of Germany he continued his criticism, saying, “I'm not happy with the Iran deal, I think it's one of the worst deals ever made.”<\/p>\n

But he declined to say whether he intended to “renegotiate” the deal, as he asserted regularly during the presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday there was no chance of Iran renegotiating the nuclear deal with world powers if US President-elect Donald Trump demands it.<\/p>\n

“The nuclear deal is finished, it has been approved by the UN Security Council and has become an international document. It is a multilateral accord and there is no sense in renegotiating it,” said Rouhani at a news conference.<\/p>\n

“Mr Trump, the president-elect, has made various statements that the nuclear deal does not satisfy him, that it was not a good deal or even that it was the worst deal ever,” said Rouhani.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Afp, Washington: US President Barack Obama on Monday marked the first anniversary of the nuclear deal with Iran by emphasising its “significant and concrete results” and warning against undoing a pact supported by the world’s major powers. In language that seemed clearly directed at incoming president Donald Trump, who is set to take office on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":29818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n