Trump ‘Not to Get Rid of’ Iran Deal: Adviser
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A top foreign policy adviser to presumptive US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump claimed the billionaire would not scrap a lasting nuclear deal between Tehran and world power if his presidential bid is successful.
“No, he’s not going to get rid of an agreement that has the institutional signature of the United States,” Walid Phares told The Daily Caller News Foundation on Tuesday.
“He is a man of institutions. But he’s going to look back at it in the institutional way. So he is not going to implement it as is, he is going to revise it after negotiating one on one with Iran or with a series of allies,” he claimed.
Phares said Trump dislikes the current diplomatic agreement, but believes it can improve with input from lawmakers.
“He’s said so far that he doesn’t like this deal and that it was poorly negotiated,” he said.
“Once elected, he’s going to renegotiate it after talking through it with his advisers.”
Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) on July 14, 2015 reached the agreement on Iran’s peaceful nuclear program and started implementing it on January 16.
The deal terminated all nuclear-related sanctions imposed on Iran.
