Published:
16 ago 2024 01:19 GMT
According to the US presidential candidate, Iran simply “cannot have a nuclear weapon.”
Former US President and Republican candidate for the 2024 elections, Donald Trump, said this Thursday in a news conference which hopes to be “friendly” to Iran.
“I told China and everyone else: ‘If you buy from Iran, you won’t be able to do business in the U.S.’ I don’t want to be bad to Iran“I hope we’re friendly. Maybe. But maybe not,” Trump said, adding that the Persian country “cannot have a nuclear weapon.”
“We were prepared to make sure that [Irán] did not have a nuclear weapon, because once i have it it would be a totally different world“a totally different negotiation,” said the former president.
In his words, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán “said that if Trump is elected [como presidente estadounidense] nothing is going to happen, everyone will be at peace“.
- In 2015, Iran, the P5+1 group (the United Kingdom, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany) and the European Union signed a nuclear agreement that provided for the lifting of a series of sanctions against the Islamic Republic in exchange for its commitment not to develop or acquire nuclear weapons.
- However, in 2018, under President Donald Trump, Washington unilaterally withdrew of the agreement, known as the JCPOA. It then reintroduced sanctions against Tehran and imposed new restrictive measures. In response, Iran gradually suspended its obligations under the pact.
- The administration of current US President Joe Biden began negotiations in 2021 to restore the agreement, but those efforts remain stagnant from August 2022.
