Rouhani: Trump’s Speech Nothing More than Insults, To Respond Once Our Interests are Threatened
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Moments after Trump delivered his hate speech against Iran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani described the speech as nothing more than insults and delirious talk.
"Trump's remarks on Iran...contained nothing but expletives and a pile of delusional allegations against the Iranian nation," Rouhani said in a televised speech.
The US president refused to certify the 2015 international nuclear agreement between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany and warned he might ultimately terminate it, in defiance of other world powers and undermining a landmark victory of multilateral diplomacy.
While Trump did not pull Washington out of the nuclear deal, he gave the US Congress 60 days to decide whether to re-impose economic sanctions against Tehran that were lifted under the pact.
Rouhani urged the US president to brush up on his world history and geography to improve his comprehension of international obligations and global ethics, etiquette and conventions.
He further pointed to the history of US antagonism toward Iran, saying, "He has to study history better and more closely and know what they [US officials] have done to the Iranian people over the past sixty-something years and how they have treated the people of Iran during the past 40 years after the victory of the [Islamic] Revolution [in 1979]."
The Iranian president further rejected Trump's demand that the JCPOA be revised, saying the agreement would remain intact and no article or paragraph would be added or taken away from it.
He added that one president alone cannot abrogate an international deal, saying, "He [Trump] apparently does not know that this is not a bilateral document between Iran and the US for him to act in any way he wishes."
Rouhani said Iran will only respect its nuclear deal commitments so long as its rights are safeguarded, adding, "Iran will honor its commitments as long as its interests are served."
He also emphasized that the Islamic Republic has cooperated and would continue its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency as long as the country's interests are protected and its rights are preserved.
"However, if one day our interests are not served, we will not hesitate even one moment and will respond," the Iranian president said.
"The Iranian nation has not yielded to any power and will not do so in the future," Rouhani said, emphasizing that many countries supported former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the imposed war against Iran in the 1980s but they failed to defeat the Iranians.
Rouhani further pointed to Trump's announcement of sanctions against Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps [IRGC], saying, "The IRGC is a powerful force and the people are always standing by the IRGC."
"Is it the IRGC that is corrupt or governments and armed forces who have always intervened in this region against the independence of nations?"
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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