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Senior EU Official: US to Lose Trust of Nations If It Quits Iran Deal

Senior EU Official: US to Lose Trust of Nations If It Quits Iran Deal
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The European Union's [EU] foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Washington's possible withdrawal from the Iran deal will send a message to the international community that the US is not trustworthy when it comes to deal making.

Senior EU Official: US to Lose Trust of Nations If It Quits Iran Deal

In a Wednesday interview with PBS channel, Mogherini highlighted Iran's full compliance with the 2015 deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA], and said, "We have the international community strongly behind the full implementation of the deal."

"Once that we have an agreement that is functioning, that is working, that is delivering, the worst thing you can do is trying to dismantle it, also because you would show the way to others that making deals actually is not worth it, because the message that America would send to the rest of the world is that America cannot be trusted upon," she said.

The US, Mogherini added, would lose global trust "because a deal that America voted for just two years ago in the UN Security Council with a resolution unanimously adopted, a deal that America helped to shape enormously, enormously, would be rejected by the same country."

"If we pass the message that with every change of administration in Washington or elsewhere deals are thrown away and renegotiated, no one would negotiate with any administration ever and any deal would be exposed to be renegotiated every term. This is not the way of making deals, not in foreign policy, not in private businesses and I think [US] President [Donald] Trump understands that perfectly well," she said.

Mogherini noted that the international community, including the EU and other US allies, will continue to abide by the deal even if Trump chooses not to certify Iran's compliance, something which has been confirmed eight times by the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA].

"The deal not only will hold, but the deal does not belong to one country or another. It is a UN Security Council resolution," she added.

Touching on speculations about the likelihood of renegotiation of the deal, Mogherini pointed to the "extremely complex nuclear aspects" of the JCPOA which have been ironed out over 12 years of intensive negotiations, saying, "It is not a deal you can easily open and renegotiate. There is [neither] technical, nor political space to renegotiate this deal."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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