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Moscow disagrees with Trump over Iranian nuclear deal

Sputnik News- Moscow does not agree with US President Donald Trump that the deal with Iran on its nuclear program was bad, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Thursday.





MOSCOW, February 9 (Sputnik) He added that creation ofobstacles and imposition ofsanctions againstIran onthe part ofthe United States was unacceptable forRussia.
"We have heard several times fromTrump and the new US authorities that the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan ofAction) was not a good deal. We do not share the US opinion," Ryabkov said.


On February 5, US Vice President Mike Pence said US President Donald Trump will decide whether the United States stands bythe Iran nuclear deal inthe upcoming days. The vice president stressed that Iran's ballistic missile test was a direct violation ofthe UN Security Council resolutions and "defiant behavior tothe world community".

The nuclear agreement was signed inJuly 2015 byIran and the P5+1 group ofcountries comprising the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom plus Germany. The agreement stipulates that Iran must maintain a peaceful nature ofits nuclear program inexchange forsanctions relief.

On Friday, US Treasury Department imposed a new roundof sanctions againstIran, adding 12 entities and 13 individuals tothe OFACs Specially Designated Nationals list, afterTehran carried outa missile launch.

The move came afterUS President Donald Trump said that Iran is "playing withfire," adding that he will not be "as kind" asformer US leader Barack Obama had been.

After much criticism and speculation overalleged missile tests inIran earlier inthe week, the nations Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehqan confirmed onWednesday that the nation had conducted test missile launches inline withtheir defense programs. Dehqan also underlined the fact that these tests violated neither the Joint Comprehensive Plan ofAction (JCPOA) nor UN Resolution 2231.

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