US withdraws from nuclear agreement with Iran

US President Donald Trump announced the US withdrawal from a nuclear deal with Iran.

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He said this during a press conference at the White House, writes Fox News.

Full text of the president’s speech

“The Iranian regime is the main state sponsor of terrorism. It exports dangerous missiles, fuels conflict in the Middle East and supports terrorist groups including Hezbollah, Hamas, the Taliban and al-Qaeda. For years, Iran and its allies bombed American embassies and military formations, killed hundreds of American military personnel, and kidnapped, detained, and tortured American citizens. The Iranian regime is the basis of chaos and terror, sacrificing the well-being of its own people for this. But no action of this regime was as dangerous as the attempt to create nuclear weapons and methods of transporting them.

In 2015, the previous administration and several other countries signed a deal addressing Iran's nuclear program, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. In theory, this so-called Iran deal was supposed to protect the United States and our allies from an Iranian nuclear bomb, a weapon that would threaten the survival of the Iranian regime.

It is worth noting that the deal allowed Iran to continue enriching uranium and eventually achieve the goal of creating a bomb. The deal lifted economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for very soft restrictions on the regime’s nuclear efforts; in general, no restrictions were imposed on other destructive actions of the regime, including its sinister actions in Syria, Yemen and other places on the planet.

In other words, this disastrous deal gave this terrorist regime billions of dollars, some of it in cash, which is a great insult to me as a citizen and to all US citizens.

At that time, a constructive agreement could have been reached, but this did not happen. At the core of the Iran deal is a huge fiction - that a murderous regime is developing an exclusively peaceful nuclear energy program.

Today we have strong evidence that this promise of Iran was a lie. Last week, Israel published intelligence documents that Iran has been hiding for a long time, they demonstrate all the stages of how the current Iranian regime is trying to create nuclear weapons.

It was a terrible one-way deal that should never have been signed. She did not bring peace, she did not bring peace and never will.

Over the years after signing the deal, Iran’s military budget has grown by almost 40%, while the economic situation in the country remains at a very low level. After the sanctions were lifted, the dictatorship used new arrivals to build missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads; support terrorism and fuel conflicts in the Middle East and beyond.

The deal was so badly spelled out that if Iran had fully complied with its demands, the regime would still be able to create nuclear weapons after a short period of time. If I leave this deal in action, the nuclear arms race will soon begin in the Middle East: each country will want to build its own nuclear weapons until Iran creates its own.

Worse yet, the transaction does not include a mechanism by which one can prevent and punish deception by one of the signatories. It also does not spell out the possibility of inspecting many important objects, including military bases. This deal not only cannot contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but it also cannot stop this country’s attempts to create ballistic missiles that are capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

The deal also does not provide an opportunity to keep Iran from destabilization actions, including its support for terrorism. Since the deal, Iran’s bloodthirsty ambitions have only grown.

In connection with all this, I stated last October that the Iran deal should be either revised or broken. Three months later, on January 12, I repeated these conditions. I made it clear that unless the transaction was improved, the United States would no longer be part of this agreement.

Over the past few months, we have had many discussions with our allies and partners around the world, including France, Germany and the UK, and we have also consulted with our friends in the Middle East - we are united in our understanding of the threat and in our belief that Iran should never get nuclear weapons. After these consultations, it became clear to me that we cannot stop the creation of an Iranian nuclear bomb based on the current agreement. The Iran deal is flawed at its very core. If we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen - in a short period of time, a state sponsor of terrorism will be on the verge of creating the most dangerous weapon in the world.

In this regard, I I announce today that the United States will withdraw from a nuclear deal with Iran. In a few moments, I will sign a presidential memorandum that will begin the introduction of American sanctions against the Iranian regime because of its nuclear program. We will apply the highest level of economic sanctions: any state that will assist Iran in its attempts to create nuclear weapons can also be subjected to tough sanctions from the United States.

America will not be held hostage to nuclear threats, we will not allow American cities to be threatened with destruction. And we will not allow a regime threatening America to gain access to the most deadly weapon on Earth.

The United States will no longer make empty threats. When I make promises, I fulfill them. ”

After that, the president signed a memorandum on the imposition of sanctions against Iran.

Responding to questions from journalists, Trump said that withdrawing from a deal with Iran would make the United States “a much safer country,” but he refused to clarify exactly how.

The Joint Comprehensive Action Plan (SAPA), signed by Iran, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (Russia, UK, China, USA, France) and Germany in July 2015, aims to resolve the crisis around Tehran’s nuclear development. In response to the lifting of the sanctions previously imposed on Iran by the UN Security Council, the United States and the European Union, Tehran has pledged to limit its nuclear activities and put it under international control. The agreement entered the implementation phase in January 2016..

Trump has repeatedly criticized this deal, arguing that it did not prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, but only delayed the day when Tehran would have nuclear warheads.

According to the Law on the Consideration of a Nuclear Agreement with Iran, the President is obliged to send confirmation to Congress every 90 days that Tehran complies with its obligations. Trump has repeatedly criticized Iran for violating the terms of the deal, but hasn’t decided to lift the freezing of sanctions against this country to this day.

His decision to withdraw from the transaction was accelerated by data that 30 April promulgated Prime Minister Of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. He showed documents showing that Iran is violating the Vienna agreement, which provides for regular inspections of its nuclear facilities by IAEA experts in exchange for the lifting of Western sanctions.

The data obtained by Israeli intelligence includes fifty-five thousand pages of documents and 55 000 files on 183 CDs and show that Tehran has never stopped its nuclear program.

More detailed information obtained by Israel can be found at link.

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