Trump pulls US from Iran nuclear accord

Other signatories express support for JCPOA

Other signatories express support for JCPOA

"If we achieve the deal's goals in cooperation with other members of the deal, it will remain in place".

President Donald Trump signs a document reinstating sanctions against Iran after announcing the United States withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear deal, in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 2018.

USA allies in Europe had tried to keep Trump in and lamented his move to abandon it. Iran's leader ominously warned his country might "start enriching uranium more than before".

'Whether or not (the Iranians) go for a military programme, you're going to get a nuclear race in the Middle East, ' said Dorsey.

"I am greatly disappointed by the US announcement that it is withdrawing from the nuclear agreement with Iran, the JCPOA", said Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney.

The Foreign Secretary vowed Britain "has no intention of walking away" from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) despite the US President's decision to pull out of the global agreement with Iran.

The pact, better known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), between Iran and six world powers - the United States, the UK, France, China, Russia and Germany - is essentially a bad one that rewarded a rogue regime.

He said at the time that some deal was better than no deal.

There was no direct evidence in Netanyahu's presentation that Iran violated the deal after signing it.

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While Tehran's regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Israel applauded Trump's decision to pull Washington out of the 2015 accord, Iran reacted furiously to the move, with lawmakers burning a U.S. flag and chanting "Death to America".

Iran has said it will try to salvage the agreement, but would restart uranium enrichment if it could not.

Speaking in Tehran, Bagheri said the Iranian people had ultimately accepted the landmark agreement "to prove the facts [regarding the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear energy program] to the world".

"We will respect the capacity of individual countries to make their decisions about foreign policy", Trudeau said Wednesday.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned that although his country would remain in the nuclear deal for now if it can not agree with other parties on a way to move forward, it will resume the enriching of uranium for nuclear bombs. There is absolutely no reason to think that the Trump administration on its own could reach a better deal than the Obama administration did by working in concert with the worldwide community. "The European Union is determined to preserve it", the top diplomat added.

Trump termed the agreement as "decaying and rotting" while announcing his decision to pull out of the six-nation pact.

Trump's decision marked a stark diplomatic defeat for Europe, whose leaders urged the U.S. president to think again. Robert Menendez was one of only four Democrats to oppose Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.

Mattis, a retired four-star general who saw his Marines killed by Tehran-backed militias in Iraq, has frequently lambasted Iranian actions in the Middle East.

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