Iran’s nuclear chief, Akbar Salehi, issued a threat on Iran state TV should President Trump pull out of the 2015 multinational nuclear deal.
Trump gave European signatories of the agreement a May 12 deadline to “fix the terrible flaws” in the agreement, or he will refuse to extend US sanctions relief on Iran. That would essentially break the agreement and would allow Iran to back out of their obligations, which, in the light of the recent secretive documents discovered by Israel, they have already done.
Mr. Salehi warned Trump that Iran is not bluffing.
“Technically, we are fully prepared to enrich uranium higher than we used to produce before the deal was reached… I hope Trump comes to his senses and stays in the deal”Salehi warned.
With the recent revelations coming out of Israel, however, it seems inevitable that President Trump will indeed kill the deal. According to a cache of documents, Iran has been building nuclear weapons all along.
Israel has accused Iran of lying to the world about its nuclear weapons programme both before and since the 2015 nuclear deal after Israeli intelligence stole 100,000 files from a secret “atomic archive” in Tehran.
Benjamin Netanyahu, an arch-opponent of the nuclear deal, made the dramatic public accusation in Tel Aviv less than two weeks before Donald Trump is due to announce whether he is pulling the US out of the agreement.
The Israeli prime minister said that Israeli spies had obtained “half a tonne” of secret documents which show that Iran’s leaders never gave a full account of their past nuclear activities as required by the Iran deal and were maintaining the knowhow to build a bomb in the future.
“The nuclear deal is based on lies. It is based on Iranian lies and Iranian deception,” Mr Netanyahu said.
“This is a terrible deal which should never have been concluded and in a few days’ time President Trump will make his decision on what to do with the nuclear deal. I’m sure he will do the right thing. The right thing for the US, the right thing for Israel, and the right thing for the peace of the world.”
Trump on Israeli PM's claims that Iran violated nuclear deal: "That just is not an acceptable situation." @POTUS says he has yet to decide whether the U.S. will pull out of nuclear agreement with Iran. https://t.co/V38T0PnUBi pic.twitter.com/KoHtpb2DXM
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 30, 2018
Source: Telegraph
