The State Department would not respond to a warning from Iran's president that it would be an act of political self-destruction for President Donald Trump to dismantle the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
“Those who want to tear up the nuclear deal should know that they will be ripping up their own political life,” said Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, newly elected to a second term, at a Saturday inaugural event.
The State Department brushed off Rouhani’s heated remark. “I’m not going to comment on every statement by an Iranian official,” an official told TWS.
Trump said late last month that Iran was not complying with the deal. "They don't comply," he said. "They’ve taken advantage of a president named Barack Obama who didn’t know what the hell he was doing."
The president has reluctantly agreed twice to certify that Iran is implementing the deal, a notification that he is required to make to Congress every 90 days and that allows Tehran to keep receiving sanctions relief. But Trump predicted in late July that Iranian compliance would not be certified at the next deadline in the fall.
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01.19.2025