Representative of Qom in the Islamic Consultative Assembly: ‎

Trump turned all of the ‎agreements that had been made upside down ‎

Rasa – Hujjat al-Islam Zonnour said that the Supreme Leader emphasized that if the ‎sanctions weren’t removed under the JCPOA, the country would face “absolute damage,” but ‎in reality we saw that the government acted in contradiction to the orders of the Supreme ‎Leader and caused a huge loss to the country.‎

News ID: 442527

Date: 21 December 2018 - 17:11

RNA – In an exclusive interview with Rasa News Agency, Hujjat al-Islam Mojtaba Zonnour, ‎the ‎representative of the people of Qom in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, referred to ‎the recent ‎statements by President Hasan Rouhani, who introduced the opposition to the ‎Joint Comprehensive ‎Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as a ‎factor in the creation of the ‎current situation, and said, “Government officials and the ‎president must be clear about the costs ‎imposed on Iran in regard to the JCPOA.” ‎

The member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Islamic ‎Consultative ‎‎Assembly‏ ‏said, “If people know at what level the country’s nuclear power has ‎been destroyed by the ‎JCPOA and how many concessions the country has given to the other ‎parties during the negotiations, ‎they can certainly judge the catastrophic operation of the ‎government and the negotiating team.”‎

Recalling the role of President Rouhani during the negotiations, Hujjat al-Islam Zonnour said, ‎‎“The ‎president deceived the people, saying that ‘all of the sanctions will be removed after ‎the ‎implementation of the JCPOA.’”‎

His Eminence emphasized, “The people accepted the historical disgrace of the JCPOA that ‎caused ‎serious damage to the nuclear power and international humiliation for the country ‎because it got rid ‎of the sanctions but today we see that none of the sanctions has been ‎removed after the JCPOA.”‎

He criticized the government’s neglect of the orders of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic ‎Revolution ‎‎[Ayatollah Khamenei], saying, “The Supreme Leader considered the negotiations ‎to be subject to the ‎lifting of all sanctions. He even emphasized that if the sanctions weren’t ‎removed under the JCPOA, ‎the country would face ‘absolute damage,’ but in reality we saw ‎that the government acted in ‎contradiction to the orders of the Supreme Leader and caused a huge ‎loss to the country.”‎

Criticizing the negotiating team during the negotiations, Hujjat al-Islam Zonnour said, “There ‎has ‎been no guarantee from the other parties has been made to remain committed to the ‎JCPOA because ‎the president of the United States (Donald Trump) turned all of the ‎agreements that had been made ‎upside down in an abusive manner.”‎

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