Iran FM: US ‘unreliable’ following Iran nuclear deal threats

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif brands Washington “unreliable,” in response to threats over the future of a nuclear deal with Iran.

“What the United States is doing, in addition to being unpredictable — which might sometimes work — is proving that it is unreliable,” Zarif tells CNN.

The deal, agreed in 2015 between Iran and six world powers — the United States, China, Russia, France, Britain and Germany — lifts economic sanctions put in place in 2005 in exchange for curbs to Tehran’s nuclear program.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is responsible for verifying that Iran meets the terms of the agreement.

But since arriving in the White House, Donald Trump has attacked the deal on numerous occasions, vowing to tear it up.

“Frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the United States, and I don’t think you’ve heard the last of it,” he told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

The president cast further doubt over the deal after the Islamic republic tested a new medium-range Khoramshahr missile Saturday that is capable of reaching Israel.

— AFP