27 Apr 2024
Wednesday 30 August 2017 - 14:31
Story Code : 274237

Zarif says Bolton's plan for abrogating N. deal with Iran sends US to isolation

FNA- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underlined that the plan proposed by former US Envoy to the UN John Bolton for his country's withdrawal from the internationally-endorsed 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran will prove as a major failure for Washington if implemented.

"I have read Mr. Bolton's plan which was released after he apparently failed to send it to the White House directly. Certainly this plan will be a major failure for the US and will further isolate the US on the international scene," Zarif said on Wednesday.

Reminding Bolton's record in proposing plans to discard international agreements, he said, "The Americans saw the result of pursuing Mr. Bolton's policies in early 2000s."

Zarif called on Bolton to remember that the US was forced to sit to the negotiating table with Iran over the nuclear dispute when his proposed policies against Tehran failed after 10 years.

Bolton says that former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon asked him to draw up a plan for how to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal in July. But after the White House ejected Bannon in August, Bolton lost access to the administration and his plan never made it to Trump's desk.

Now he's decided to publish his plan publicly.

The five-page memo is basically a strategic public relations campaign to convince the world that the US has a case for pulling out of the deal. That case hinges on one central claim: that Iran is clearly violating the deal and has thus rendered it a meaningless agreement.

But experts say that this claim isnt grounded in evidence, and that Iran is meeting international standards in complying with the deals requirements for inspections and monitoring.

Boltons argument, they say, simply assumes that Iran has nefarious intentions to build nuclear weapons despite the absence of any proof. And some analysts warn that his argument suffers from the same kind of war-hungry reasoning that led the US to invade Iraq on questionable evidence in 2003.
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