A former commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that if the United States walks away from the nuclear deal, Iran could respond by exiting the international treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
Talking to reporters on April 26, Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council, deemed as “very serious” the warnings issued by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif about the United States exiting the nuclear deal with Iran. Zarif was the lead nuclear negotiator for the deal, formally the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The agreement, between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany, was signed in July 2015, but President Donald Trump has stated his intention to walk away from what he calls a “bad deal” made by his predecessor, Barack Obama.
