Official:

US President Needs to Recall Past Mistakes

Rasa - Secretary of Iran's Expediency Council (EC) Mohsen Rezayee blasted the US president for his anti-rhetoric, and said Donald Trump should remember Washington's previous mistakes in the region, specially its approach towards Iran.

News ID: 433088

Date: 13 October 2017 - 21:38

RNA - "Have you forgotten what happened to the US sailors encroaching on Iranian territory in Farsi Island last year? Your dreams will not come true," Rezayee wrote on his Twitter account on Thursday.

He also said that Trump needs to confront the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) to see how millions of people join it.

On January 12, 2016 two United States Navy riverine command boats cruising from Kuwait to Bahrain with a combined crew of nine men and one woman on board strayed into Iranian territorial waters and immediately were stopped and arrested by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy.

Rezayee had also on Saturday stated that Trump's move to relieve his decision-making power over the nuclear deal to the Congress would mean a political suicide for the US president.

Trump wants to hand the fate of the nuclear deal to the US lawmakers instead of certifying the deal and extending suspension of sanctions against Iran, Rezayee said in a press conference in Tehran.

"The Congress has two to three months to decide about suspension of sanctions or reimposing them but Trump is attempting to put the burden on the Congress's shoulders," he added.

"This shows that Trump has a problem. I think that it's a type of suicide," Rezayee said.

According to the US media, Trump has a message to Republicans in Congress -- you don't like the Iran nuclear deal, so you deal with it.

His expected decision to decertify the agreement would allow him to save face and dent Barack Obama's legacy. And by handing its fate to lawmakers, he would also limit his political exposure to any decision to kill off a pact backed by US allies.

His expected move is already being condemned by critics, who warn he is putting US national security at risk to satisfy his own prejudices toward a deal he has branded an "embarrassment" to America.

Trump has twice previously been forced to certify that Iran is complying with its terms as the International Atomic Energy Agency and US military leaders say Iran is honoring the agreement.

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