Khamenei accuses Joe Biden of making the same demands as Trump on nuclear issue
August 28, 2021, 12:16 pm

Khamenei accuses Joe Biden of making the same demands as Trump on nuclear issue

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The Arab news reported that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday accused US President Joe Biden of making the same demands as his predecessor Donald Trump in talks to revive a nuclear deal.

According to the Arab News, the multilateral deal that offers Iran relief from sanctions in return for curbs on its nuclear program was torpedoed by Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from it in 2018.

The media outlet added, a last round of negotiations between Iran and the deal’s remaining parties to revive the 2015 accord concluded in June with no resumption in sight.

Khamenei said, quoted by his official website, “America’s current administration is no different from the previous one, because what it demands from Iran on the nuclear issue is different in words, but the same thing that Trump demande.”

He added, referring to the deal by its official name, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, “the Americans truly have no shame on the nuclear issue, and even though they withdrew from the JCPOA... they now talk in a way and make demands as it was (Iran) that withdrew.”

The Arab News mentioned that Khamenei made the remarks during a meeting with President Ebrahim Raisi’s newly formed cabinet.

A year after Trump’s decision to withdraw from the deal and impose sanctions on Iran, the Islamic republic retaliated by gradually waiving most of the key nuclear commitments that it had accepted under the agreement.

Six rounds of nuclear talks between Iran and world powers — with the United States taking part indirectly — were held in Vienna between April and June.
The last round concluded on June 20, with no date set for another.

Source: arabnews

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