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US will be big loser if JCPOA fails

Rasa - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has condemned US President Donald Trump’s latest hostile comments against the Iranian nation at the UN General Assembly.

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Date: 22 September 2017 - 21:00

RNA - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has condemned US President Donald Trump’s latest hostile comments against the Iranian nation at the UN General Assembly. During his Tuesday speech, Trump accused the Islamic Republic of engaging in “destabilizing activities” in the Middle East and described Iran’s nuclear agreement as an “embarrassment to the United States.”

Brian Becker, with the ANSWER Coalition from Washington, and Johnathan Fryer, a writer and lecturer from London, discussed the issue in an interview.

Becker said the United States will be the big loser if the Iran nuclear deal fails, because American allies and other p7owers are keen to continue cooperation with Iran.

“All of the US allies, the other five countries – Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China – want to trade with Iran and they are going to continue trade,” the commentator said on Thursday night.

Iran’s cooperation to solve the dispute over its nuclear program through negotiation left the United States without any pretext to continue with its isolation policy against the Islamic Republic, he argued.

Iran and the P5+1 group reached an agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in July 2015 and the deal took effect in January 2016. Under the deal, Iran undertook to apply certain limits to its nuclear program in exchange for the termination of all nuclear-related sanctions against Tehran.

But since rising to the presidency in the US a year after the implementation of the Iran deal had begun, Donald Trump has been actively seeking a pretext to initiate an American withdrawal.

Becker said the US used all options it had to initiate a “regime change” in Iran, but it has realized that the aspirations are complete fantasy and that the Islamic Republic is not going to be overthrown by a US coup d'état.

Jonathan Fryer, the other guest on the show, said the remakes that the US president made at the UN General Assembly on the JCPOA had made the other signatories to the deal concerned.

Trump wants to “punish” Iran but that is not the position of other Western powers, the lecturer noted.

Fryer further said, “America is no longer the number one in the world that it was very clear in the 20th century and it still tries to flex its muscles in different parts of the world but it begins to realize that it isn’t the great super power that it was before.”

Source: Press TV

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