Iran's MP: Withdrawal from nuclear deal proves US unreliability

'Iran's nuclear deal is an international deal, not between Iran and the US, and there is a consensus that it is one of the deals that have contributed to the peace and international and regional detent,' Abbas Ali Mansouri Arani, a member of Iran's Parliament special committee monitoring implementation of the nuclear deal told Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).

Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Chima signed the nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in 2015, under which Iran accepted to curb its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief.

Trump is trying to take concessions, inattentive to what others say about him, the Member of Parliament said of the US President's rhetoric on pulling back from the nuclear deal.

Trump in his speech at the 72nd UN General Assembly lashed out at Iran and the historic nuclear deal it signed with the major world powers in 2015, claiming, 'The Iran deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into.' He had repeatedly threatened that he would scrap the deal or renegotiate it.

'If the US withdraws from the JCPOA, the world public opinion will understand that the deals with the US can be trusted no more than the lenghth of the US Presidents' term of office,' Mansouri Arani added, saying that in the international norms, states and governments are changed but the successors remain committed to the past agreements.

Certainly, we have owr options on the table at National Security Council, and do not believe that the US will pull out of the nuclear deal, but if it chooses to do so, there are various ways to return to the status we had before the nuclear deal, the member of Iran's Parliament on National Security and Foreign Affairs said.

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