Secretary of State Rex Tillerson left and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis right listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House Wednesday Jan. 10 2018 in Washington
Trump and his top advisers have been negotiating with US lawmakers on Capitol Hill to try to change sanctions legislation so that Trump does not face a deadline on whether to recertify Iranian compliance with the nuclear deal every 90 days.
The landmark agreement signed between six world powers is officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
On Friday, Trump said the United States would withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal unless its "disastrous flaws" were fixed.
Trump warned that he would scrap the agreement limiting Iran's nuclear program - an accord he has long despised - unless European countries "join with the United States in fixing significant flaws in the deal".
However, when Trump was elected, Riyadh and Tel Aviv found a new strong ally in their quest to discredit the deal and lobby the USA government against the Iranian government.
Trump had lengthy discussions on Thursday with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, national security adviser H.R. McMaster and others about the deal, which was reached during the presidency of Democrat Barack Obama.
Additionally, the Treasury Department imposed new measures that target Iranian businesses and individuals for human rights abuses. He also called on Iran to stay calm and continue to fulfil obligations under the deal.
"I have been very clear about my opinion of that deal", Trump said in his January 12 statement.
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Trump said he would waive sanctions against Iran that were lifted as part of the worldwide deal for the last time unless his conditions were met.
In particular, it will not begin to expire after 10 years as parts of the existing deal do, but instead would impose permanent restrictions on not just Iran's nuclear plants but also its missile programme. "In absence of such an agreement [between the USA and European powers], the United States will not again waive sanctions in order to stay in the Iran nuclear deal". He didn't say exactly what European allies must do beyond addressing the deal's flaws, countering Tehran's aggression and "supporting the Iranian people".
"We are gradually coming to the conclusion that an internal decision by the USA to leave the JCPOA has already been made or is close to being made", Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the Interfax news agency.
Besides issuing an ultimatum to Europe, Trump also said he wanted an amended USA law on the Iran nuclear deal that would include "trigger points" that, if violated by the Persian nation, would automatically lead to the reimposition of United States sanctions. "We will be discussing this with our European partners and with the United States and will respond in detail in due course".
The other signatories to the deal - Britain, China, France, Germany and Russian Federation - and the European Union, which oversaw the talks, were watching carefully. These penalties largely cut Iran out of the global financial system, until they were suspended by Obama under the nuclear deal.
In a statement Saturday, Iran's Foreign Ministry said the Trump administration's "hostile and illegal act" in including Larijani in its sanctions list "has gone way beyond all internationally accepted behavior red lines". JCPOA (the nuclear deal) is not renegotiable: "rather than repeating exhausted rhetoric, US must bring itself into full compliance - just like Iran", Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote on his Twitter account.
Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused Trump of "maliciously violating" the nuclear deal.
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