World Reacts to Donald Trump's Speech against JCPOA

TEHRAN (defapress) – World leaders were quick to react to US President Donald Trump's decision to decertify the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.

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Date: 14 October 2017 - 15:25

Shortly after Trump’s speech on Friday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio expressed the hope that the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers be saved, his spokesman said.

Stephane Dujarric said Guterres considers the deal to be a "very important breakthrough to consolidate nuclear non-proliferation and advance global peace and security".

"The secretary-general very much hopes that it will remain in place," Stephane Dujarrica added, the official website of the UN reported.

In Washington, DC, Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the US House of Represantatives, called Trump's move "a grave mistake" that threatens the country's security and credibility.

Pelosi said Trump ignored "the overwhelming consensus of nuclear scientists, national security experts, generals and his own cabinet, including, reportedly, his secretary of defense and secretary of state".

Pelosi said Washington's allies in Europe have no intention of leaving the seven-nation pact, adding that if Trump's judgment leads to an unraveling of the deal, it will be the US that's isolated, not Iran.

Trump, however, got support from the Zionist regime of Israel and Saudi Arabia.

"President Trump has just created an opportunity to fix this bad deal, to roll back Iran's aggression and to confront its criminal support of terrorism," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video statement.

Saudi Arabia also welcomed what it called Trump's "decisive strategy" toward Iran.

It said it would continue to work with allies to achieve the goals announced by Trump and end Iran's "hostile activities".

Speaking from the White House on Friday, Trump said he will choose not to certify that Tehran is complying with the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers (the US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany).

He said that the new policy is aimed at preventing what he claimed to be Iran’s effort to obtain a nuclear weapon.

In response, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Friday blasted the anti-Iran comments made by the US president, reiterating that the Iranian nation will not surrender to such "false statements and hate speech”.