Hassan Rouhani
Outgoing Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says that the 2018 Mossad seizure of nuclear documents from Tehran caused the former U.S. president to withdraw from the JCPOA.
“The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran can enrich uranium by 20 percent and 60 percent, and if one day our reactors need it, it can produce 90 percent,” said outgoing Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
Senior diplomats from Britain, France Germany: “The most difficult decisions lie ahead” • “The main problems with the U.S. have been settled,” says the Iranian president.
Iran has been in talks with world powers for a month to revive the 2015 nuclear deal that the Trump administration withdrew from in 2018.
The timing of the leak was designed to cause internal Iranian divisions just as nuclear talks approach a decisive phase, says Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
Hassan Rouhani’s comment follows a meeting in Vienna of the Joint Commission of the JCPOA, whose chairman touts “progress” but with “more hard work” ahead.
Iran’s most important newspaper suggests that the fate of the regime in Tehran resembles that of the Shah.
Independent Iran researcher Amir Toumaj said there is both a “general call for immediate retaliation and others pushing for a delayed response, arguing Tehran shouldn’t fall into a trap ahead of talks with the Biden administration.”
The conservative camp in the Islamic Republic emphasizes that there is no real difference between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, calling Democrats a “prettier face” with the same policy.
“If Washington wants an agreement with us, then they should apologize for exiting the deal and return to it,” said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a televised news conference.
Despite Tehran’s resounding victory over Washington in the U.N. Security Council, it still faces a severe and deepening crisis.
As the rial falls to its lowest-ever level against the dollar, the Iranian president blames the Trump administration.