A US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal would be a new affront to the United Nations — 14 years after the invasion of Iraq, former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix warns.
US President Donald Trump is a fierce critic of the 2015 accord, calling it “the worst deal ever,” and he is expected to announce this week that he is “decertifying” Iran’s compliance with it.
“If Mr Trump cares for the authority of the United Nations then he cannot pull back unilaterally from that agreement,” Blix says in Paris.
Blix was speaking on the sidelines of a two-day International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe that started in Paris today.
“I am a bit puzzled by Trump’s lonely attitude…because the president has voiced his great disapproval” of the Iran deal in the face of “almost the unanimous international community standing in favour of it,” he said.
The Swedish former diplomat headed the inspection team that found no proof of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2002-03, as the United States was poised to invade the country.
— AFP
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