Tehran: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Wednesday told North Korea’s Foreign Minister not to trust the US, following the US decision to impose economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
The sanctions on Iran came into force Tuesday, three months after US President Donald Trump announced that his country had pulled out from the 2015 nuclear accord signed by Iran and the G5+1, made up of Russia, China, the UK, France, the US and Germany plus the European Union. “The US administration’s performance in these years has led the country to be considered untrustworthy and unreliable around the world that does not meet any of its obligations,” Rouhani said.
“In the current situation, friend countries should develop their relations and cooperation in international communities alongside each other,” he added. Rouhani explained that his country and North Korea had “supported each other in many critical international points and the global community,” referring to the pressures both countries have gone through to dismantle their nuclear weapons. Ri started his visit to TehranTuesday and met his Iranian counterpart Mohamed Javad Zarif. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said it was hard to imagine new talks with the US after it lost the trust of the world with its erratic decision-making.
US sanctions on Iran could cause ‘chaos’, says Germany
Berlin: German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned Wednesday that US President Donald Trump’s decision to reimpose sanctions on Iran could further destabilise the Middle East and boost radical forces in the region. Trump brought back the punishing sanctions after unilaterally pulling out of a landmark 2015 deal between Tehran and Western powers to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions. “We still think that it is a mistake to give up on the nuclear accord with Iran,” Maas said in an interview with the daily Passauer Neue Presse. “We are fighting for the deal because it also serves our purpose by bringing about security and transparency in the region.” Noting Iran’s geographic proximity to Europe, Maas warned that “anyone who’s hoping for regime change must not forget that whatever follows could bring us much bigger problems.” “Isolating Iran could boost radical and fundamentalist forces,” he said, adding that “chaos in Iran, as we have experienced in Iraq or Libya, would further destabilise an already troubled region.”
