Press TV has conducted an interview with Gareth Porter, an investigative journalist, and Lawrence Korb, a former assistant to United States secretary of defense, to discuss the US’s rhetoric toward Iran.

Porter says the US administration is trying to fulfill its obligations under a nuclear agreement between Iran and the six world powers, which was reached in Vienna on July 14, 2015, but the United States continues “to be an adversary of Iran for the foreseeable future; therefore, it is not trying to help Iran’s economic recovery at all.”

The journalist also says non-nuclear related sanctions prevent businessmen from engaging with the Iranian market because the non-American tradesmen are facing trouble to use US banks to carry out transactions with Iran.

The US foreign policy towards Iran has been swinging between cooperation with the Islamic Republic over the nuclear agreement and hostile policies against Tehran over developments in the Middle East, he says.

Pointing to the embargo imposed on Iran’s aerial defense capabilities by the West, Porter says Iran has done a “rational” act by “putting its talent and resources into ballistic missiles” to make use of its missile program “as a deterrent to an attack on Iran” from its adversaries like the United States and the Israeli regime.

Korb, for his part, says US President Barack Obama is under pressure from Republican politicians, who are against the nuclear deal; however, he says, American presidents after Obama are expected to abide by the US’s obligations under the agreement.

By Press TV