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Friday 4 May 2018

Iran’s foreign minister says no renegotiating nuclear deal

By NASSER KARIMI and JON accented English. trifuges, as well as hand While directly criticizing the tions with the West.
GAMBRELL “In contrast, the U.S. has over its stockpile of uranium U.S. and Europe, Zarif did A U.N. panel in September
Associated Press consistently violated the and reconfigure a heavy- appear to leave some wig- described “an emerging
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s agreement, especially by water reactor so it couldn’t gle room for possible nego- pattern involving the arbi-
foreign minister took to trary deprivation of liberty
YouTube on Thursday to of dual nationals” in Iran,
criticize President Donald which Tehran denied.
Trump’s threat to withdraw The video comes amid in-
from the nuclear deal, say- tense lobbying on Trump
ing Iran will not “renegoti- from all sides.
ate or add onto” the atom- Israeli Prime Minister Ben-
ic accord. jamin Netanyahu himself
Mohammad Javad Zar- earlier this week gave an
if’s video, which was also English-language presen-
posted to Trump’s favorite tation on what he called a
social media platform, Twit- “half ton” of Iranian nucle-
ter, appeared to be taking ar documents illicitly seized
his message to the masses by Israeli intelligence.
after earlier speaking to Netanyahu said the docu-
news outlets across the ments provided evidence
United States to defend the that Iran attempted to de-
deal. velop a nuclear bomb in
It comes as Trump has sig- the 2000s.
naled he will withdraw from The United Nations’ atomic
the agreement by May 12 watchdog previously re-
if it is not renegotiated and ported such efforts and
changed. said it has “no credible in-
Those changes have in- dications of activities in Iran
cluded proposals to limit relevant to the develop-
Iran’s ballistic missile pro- In this April 24, 2018, file photo, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is interviewed by ment of a nuclear explo-
gram, which Tehran says it The Associated Press, in New York. Associated Press sive device after 2009.”
has as a defensive deter- Zarif himself dismissed Ne-
rent. bullying others from doing produce plutonium. In ex- tiations, however. tanyahu’s presentation as
The five-minute video business with Iran.” change, Iran regained ac- “It is Iran, and not the West, “a rehash of old allega-
shows Zarif behind his desk, Zarif adds: “Let me make cess to the global banking that has serious grievances tions” and called the prime
delivering his message on it absolutely clear once system and could sell its oil and much to demand,” minister “the boy who can’t
the deal. He offers back- and for all: We will neither again on the world market. Zarif says. stop crying wolf.”
ground first about the deal outsource our security nor Airplane manufacturers, That comes as Iran’s hard- In the video, Zarif also ap-
before laying into Trump will we renegotiate or add carmakers and others have line Revolutionary Guard pears to troll Trump as well
and criticizing Europe for onto a deal we have al- rushed into Iran after the continues to detain a num- by making a real-estate
offering “the United States ready implemented in accord. ber of dual nationals, West- analogy to the former de-
more concessions from our good faith.” However, some Western ern citizens and others . veloper.
pocket.” There was no immediate firms have grown increas- Analysts and family mem- “When you buy a house
“On 11 occasions since, the response from Washington. ingly reluctant to enter bers of dual nationals and and move your family in it
U.N. nuclear watchdog has The 2015 nuclear deal be- the market, in part over others detained in Iran say or demolish it to build a sky-
confirmed that Iran has im- tween Iran and world pow- Trump’s constant criticism hard-liners in the Islamic Re- scraper, you cannot come
plemented all of its obliga- ers saw Tehran limit its en- on the campaign trail and public’s security agencies back two years later and
tions,” Zarif, who studied in richment of uranium and from the White House on use the prisoners as bar- renegotiate the price,” he
the U.S., says in American- number of spinning cen- the deal. gaining chips in negotia- says.q