Speaking at a State of the Union conference, Mogherini said she has received assurances from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that the country would stand by the agreement, despite U.S. PresidentDonald Trumps decisionto withdraw and reimpose sanctions on Iran earlier this week.
We are determined to keep this deal in place, Mogherini said, adding that only Iran has the power to unilaterally wreck the deal.
The Italian diplomatwill meetwith the foreign ministers of Germany, France and the United Kingdom the three European powers that brokered the nuclear deal along with the EU, U.S., China and Russia in Brussels Tuesday to discuss the future of the agreement. The European diplomats will also meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Europeans areseeking to demonstratethat they can still deliver most of the economic benefits Tehran was promised in exchange for giving up its nuclear weapons program and allowing a robust system of international inspections, as well as persuade European companies active in Iran not to abandon their deals out of fear of being penalized by the U.S.
No country is big enough to face this world alone Federica Mogherini
In her speech, Mogherini took several shots at Trump, though she did not mention the U.S. president by name, saying: It seems that screaming, shouting, insulting and bullying, systematically destroying and dismantling everything that is already in place, is the mood of our times. While the secret of change and we need change is to put all energies not in destroying the old, but rather in building the new.
This impulse to destroy is not leading us anywhere good, she added. It is not solving any of our problems.
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