Kerry: Trump’s decision against Iran ‘dangerous’

The Former US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday warned that turning Iran’s nuclear deal to Congress would be “dangerous”, noting the collapse of the deal would turn the world in to a much more dangerous place, Arab48 reported.

Last month, US President Donald Trump refused to recognise that Iran had fulfilled its part in the nuclear deal it signed with world powers. He did not cancel it, as he had threatened, but passed it to Congress for amendments.

“It is important to note the simple things, the Iran nuclear deal is working, it is doing precisely what it was set up to do. President Trump’s decision to decertify the Iran deal made no reference to any fact whatsoever,” Kerry said.

He reiterated that the International Atomic Energy Authority “has confirmed Iran’s compliance no less than eight times”.

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“I heard Mr Trump say there’s a violation of the spirit of the Iran deal. There is no spirit of the deal. What we have is a deal focused on the nuclear questions. And it is delivering. The idea of violation has simply been pulled out of the sky, there is no scientific bases, no evidence that would demerit certification.”

The Independent reported Kerry saying that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged former US President Barack Obama to bomb Iran.

After you bomb a country you give them reason to want a weapon. The Iran deal makes Israel safer, the security people in Israel know that. Bombing Iran would not have stopped Iran developing a bomb, the deal does.

“We all know what the world would have looked like without a deal with Iran. We knew Iran was maybe two months from a nuclear break-out. Under the deal we have cradle to grave visibility on every ounce of uranium, the situation has never been more transparent.”