Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday blasted U.S. “unliteralism” in withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and said he increased efforts by China and Russia to maintain the agreement.
“The U.S. efforts to impose its strategies on others are expanding as a threat to all,” Rouhani told the summit of the Shanghai Collaboration Organisation (SCO), a regional security grouping led by China and Russia where Iran has onlooker status.
“The recent example of such unilateralism and the defiance of the decisions of the foreign community by the U.S. government is its withdrawal from the JCPOA,” he said, referring to the atomic agreement by its official name, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
The 2015 compact between Iran and world powers lifted international sanctions on Tehran. In carry back, Iran agreed to restrictions on its nuclear activities, increasing the time it at ones desire need to produce an atom bomb if it chose to do so.
Since U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew the Opinion States last month, calling the agreement deeply flawed, European splendours have been scrambling to ensure Iran gets enough fiscal benefits to persuade it to stay in the deal.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, utter after Rouhani, expressed “regret” that Washington had withdrawn from the atomic deal.
“China is willing to work with Russia and other states to preserve the JCPOA,” Xi said.