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posted by janrinok on Tuesday April 24 2018, @07:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-sure-that-threats-will-work dept.

President Rouhani warns that White House failure to uphold Iran nuclear deal would prompt firm reaction from Tehran.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called on US President Donald Trump to uphold the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers, or "face severe consequences". 

In a televised speech, Rouhani said the "Iranian government will react firmly" if the White House fails to "live up to their commitments" under the agreement. 

The warning comes weeks in advance of a May 12 deadline for Trump to renew the deal.

The US president has previously said he would scrap the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which he has called the "worst deal in history", unless "a better option" is presented to him. 

[...] The landmark deal reached in Lausanne, Switzerland in April 2015 with China, Russia, France, Great Britain, Germany and the US offered Iran more than $110bn a year in sanctions relief and a return to the global economy in exchange for halting its drive for a nuclear weapon.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 25 2018, @02:29AM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 25 2018, @02:29AM (#671474) Journal

    Ya see, there's a problem here. "Politician" shouldn't be a career thing at all. That's a big part of what is wrong with our country today. We have a very small group of people who are firmly entrenched in Washington, driving this nation wherever it is that they want to go. career politicians and the two party system very nearly sum up all that is wrong with the US. Add in the dependency of the military-industrial complex on career politicians, and the two party system, and maybe you can see how big a problem it really is.

    This is one case in which I can agree with some of our youth. The old bastards need to be swept away, to make room for new faces, and new ideas. All those old congress critters can go straight to hell, for all I care. They are unwanted, and unneeded.

    Wasn't it Hillary who presumed to tell us that she was "qualified" to be president? ROFLMAO - despite her self-proclaimed qualifications, the broad never did anything right while she held the reigns of power. She sounds like corporate CEO's who believe they "deserve" huge bonuses, after having run their companies into the ground.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by TheRaven on Wednesday April 25 2018, @09:30AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Wednesday April 25 2018, @09:30AM (#671563) Journal

    Ya see, there's a problem here. "Politician" shouldn't be a career thing at all.

    You know, this ought to be a lot more obvious to US citizens given that the job title for some of your most senior politicians is representative. Democracy begins to suffer when 'representative' morphs into 'leader'.

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