Iran could quit nuclear deal in 'hours' if new U.S. sanctions imposed: Rouhani

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Iran could abandon its nuclear agreement with world powers "within hours" if the United States imposes any more new sanctions, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday.

"If America wants to go back to the experience (of imposing sanctions), Iran would certainly return in a short time -- not a week or a month but within hours -- to conditions more advanced than before the start of negotiations," Rouhani told a session of parliament broadcast live on state television.

Iran says new sanctions that the United States has imposed on it breach the agreement it reached in 2015 with the United States, Russia, China and three European powers in which it agreed to curb its nuclear work in return for the lifting of most sanctions.

The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on six Iranian firms in late July for their role in the development of a ballistic missile program after Tehran launched a rocket capable of putting a satellite into orbit.

In early August, U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law new sanctions on Iran, Russia and North Korea passed by the U.S. Congress. The sanctions in that bill also target Iran's missile programs as well as human rights abuses.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-rouhani-idUSKCN1AV0LW

 

[krzepice1976]

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..Those who try to return to the language of threats and sanctions are prisoners of their past delusions," he said in the televised address.
"If they want to go back to that experience, definitely in a short time, not weeks or months, but in the scale of hours and days, we will return to our previous situation very much more stronger."
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Rouhani said Iran preferred to stick with the nuclear deal, which he called "a model of victory for peace and diplomacy over war and unilateralism" but that this was not the "only option".
He said Trump had shown he was an unreliable partner not just for Iran but for US allies.
"In recent months, the world has witnessed that the US, in addition to its constant and repetitive breaking of its promises in the JCPOA [nuclear deal], has ignored several other global agreements and shown its allies that the US is neither a good partner nor a reliable negotiating party," he said.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/iran-quit-nuclear-deal-sanctions-imposed-170815074024093.html

 

[Upshot]

Sounds like some pre-justification.
The west may negotiate in good faith. Iran will not. Iran will lie to further it's state aims, every single time. The doctrine is called Taqiyya.
Iran is righteous, and anything is allowed. We are kuffur. They will lie, they have to, that's the way this thing works, it is a moral imperative and a virtue. Same deal applies to Saudi Arabia, or any other nation subscribing to a certain 'detonating' religion.