AKIPRESS.COM - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Friday that Iran will "stick to" the international nuclear weapons agreement as written and that President Trump's efforts to scuttle it leave the United States "more isolated than ever," the USA Today reported.
Trump said on Friday that he would not re-certify the two-year-old agreement to Congress because Iran is allegedly not living up to the spirit of the deal and has committed “multiple violations.” Trump says that if Congress can’t come up with new legislation, he will terminate the Obama-era pact.
In a 22-minute response on Iranian TV, Rouhani said Trump apparently does not realize that a U.S. president cannot unilaterally scrap a deal negotiated among many nations and certified by the United Nations.
The deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of action (JCPOA), was struck in 2015 following negotiations by China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, the European Union and Iran.
"No president can revoke an international document backed by the U.N. on his own," he said. "America took a hostile position against an international deal (and) once again the European Union also took a firm position against the U.S. America is now is more than ever isolated."