TEHRAN: Iran will not let US President-elect Donald Trump rip up the nuclear deal it signed with world powers, President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday.
“[Trump] wants to do many things, but none of his actions would affect us … Do you think the United States can rip up the JCPOA (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal)? Do you think we and our nation will let him do that?” Rouhani said in a speech at University of Tehran broadcast live on state television.
President-elect Donald Trump once said during his campaign that he would “rip up” the agreement.
In an interview last week, outgoing CIA Director John Brennan has said it would be the “height of folly” for US President-elect Donald Trump to tear up Washington’s deal with Tehran because it would make it more likely that Iran and others would acquire nuclear weapons.
“It could lead to a weapons programme inside of Iran that could lead other states in the region to embark on their own programmes,” Brennan said in an interview with the BBC aired on Wednesday.
