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Saturday 23 September 2017 - 15:09
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Trump's UN speech 'belongs in medieval times,' says Irans Zarif



Press TV - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarifhas said that US President Donald Trumps UN address is not worth of a reply.

"Trump's ignorant hate speech belongs in medieval times - not the 21st century UN - unworthy of a reply," Zarif tweeted on Tuesday.

Fake empathy for Iranians fools no one," he stressed.



SinceTrump took office, the US has launched an attack against the nuclear deal negotiated between Iran and the world powers, including Washington, threatening to abandon the deal on multiple occasions.

Trump told the United Nations General Assembly earlier Tuesday that the nuclear agreement, dubbed as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),is an embarrassment to the United States.

The US president repeated baseless allegations against Tehran, accusing it of engaging in destabilizing activities in the region.

Trump claimed that Iran's "support for terror is in stark contrast to the recent commitments of many of its neighbors to fight terrorism and halt its financing,

The US and some of its regional allies, including Saudi Arabia, have been staunch supporters of Takfiri terrorists in the Muslim states of Syria and Iraq.

Tehran has, meanwhile, been praised for its support for anti-terrorism efforts by the governments in Damascus and Baghdad.

The Takfiri terrorists of Daesh were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government.



[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (R) exits the Russian Permanent Mission to the UN following a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on September 17, 2017 in New York. (Photo by AFP)[/caption]

Trumps top diplomat appeared on the US media later to highlight his bosss stance on the JCPOA.

If were going to stick with the Iran deal there has to be changes made to it. The sunset provisions simply is not a sensible way forward, said US State Secretary Rex Tillerson. Its just simply ... kicking the can down the road again for someone in the future to have to deal with.

Tillerson made the comments as the October 15 deadline was approaching for the president to certify that Iran is complying with the pact.



If Trump refuses to do that, then the Republican-controlled Congress will have 60 days to decide whether to reimpose sanctions waived under the deal.

Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China plus Germany signed the nuclear agreement on July 14, 2015 and started implementing it on January 16, 2016. Under the JCPOA, Iran undertook to put limitations on its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of nuclear-related sanctions imposed against Tehran.

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