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Iran FM says Trump trying to undermine nuclear deal

Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Trump administration seems to have come to the realization that scrapping the deal outright would isolate the United States globally.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks to the media in Tbilisi, Georgia, April 18, 2017. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili - RTS12PQO

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px Calibri; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} NEW YORK — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tuesday that Iran was still not certain whether the Donald Trump administration wants to scrap the Iran nuclear deal. But he said critics of the deal — reached in 2015 after years of intensive negotiations — are wrong to think that a better agreement is available.

“We still do not know what they want to do,” Zarif said. “They have been talking about scrapping the deal. … But they seem to have come to the realization that scrapping the deal is not something that would be globally welcome. … [So] they now try to make it impossible for Iran to get the benefits from the deal.”

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