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The
foreign ministers of China and Iran have urged the governments that signed the
Iran nuclear deal to continue to adhere to the agreement regardless of
"any changes in the domestic situations of the countries concerned."
Their
remarks appear to be directed at U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who said on
the campaign trail this year he would renegotiate the terms of the deal and
increase its enforcement, calling the pact "the dumbest deal I think I've
ever seen."
None of
the other parties to the agreement have expressed interest in dismantling the
deal. The nations that negotiated the agreement "have the obligation to
fully implement it," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said
Monday in Beijing. "Iran will not allow any country to take unilateral
action to violate the agreement and Iran has the right to take action against
that."
Chinese
Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the deal should be "implemented fully and in
its entirety, which is the common responsibility and duty of all parties
involved in this agreement." The negotiations for Iran's nuclear deal
sprang out of concern that Iran was working to develop nuclear weapons, which
the Iranian government repeatedly denied.
FILE -
The reactor building of Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is seen outside the
port city of Bushehr, 1245 kilometers (750 miles) south of the capital Tehran,
Iran, Oct. 26, 2010. President Barrack Obama has called the agreement the
world's best "means of ensuring Iran does not get a nuclear weapon,"
while President-elect Donald Trump has disparaged it on the campaign trail as
the "the dumbest deal I think I've ever seen."
FILE -
The reactor building of Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is seen outside the
port city of Bushehr, 1245 kilometers (750 miles) south of the capital Tehran,
Iran, Oct. 26, 2010. President Barrack Obama has called the agreement the
world's best "means of ensuring Iran does not get a nuclear weapon,"
while President-elect Donald Trump has disparaged it on the campaign trail as
the "the dumbest deal I think I've ever seen."
The deal
was reached after extensive negotiations between Iran, China, Britain, France,
Germany, Russia and the United States. The agreement spells out a 10-year limit
on Iran's centrifuges, a 15-year limit on how much it can enrich uranium and a
25-year period for United Nations inspectors to have access to its nuclear
facilities, all pushing its major effects beyond certain changes in leadership
among the nations involved in the negotiations.
U.S.
President Barrack Obama called the agreement the world's best "means of
ensuring Iran does not get a nuclear weapon," while diplomats involved
pointed to the negotiations as an example of how nations can peacefully resolve
their differences.
World
powers have lifted their sanctions, unlocking billions of dollars for Iran and
clearing the way for new business opportunities there. Iran has complained that
despite the lifting of sanctions that once barred financial institutions from
doing business with the country remain reluctant to be involved in
transactions.