28 Mar 2024
Saturday 28 April 2018 - 17:06
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Ex-IRGC chief: Iran to leave nuclear weapons treaty if US ditches deal

Al-Monitor- A former commander of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that if the United States walks away from the nuclear deal, Iran could respond by exiting the international treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.


Talking to reporters on April 26, Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Irans Expediency Council, deemed asvery serious the warnings issuedby Foreign MinisterMohammad Javad Zarifabout the United States exiting the nuclear deal with Iran. Zarif was thelead nuclear negotiator for the deal,formally the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The agreement, between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany,was signed in July 2015, but President Donald Trump has stated his intentionto walk away from what he calls a bad deal made by his predecessor, Barack Obama.

In the case of the US exiting the nuclear deal, Rezaei said,we will exit the NPT, referring to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the arms limitation and disarmament agreement signed by 191 countries. Only four United Nations member states have not signed the treaty. Three of them Israel, Indiaand Pakistan are knownto have nuclear weapons. North Korea, which has nuclearcapabilities but lacks a delivery system, withdrew from the NPT in 2003.

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