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The next US president will have to "give in" to Iran's demands, according to Rouhani

2020-09-22T18:10:54.383Z


The Europeans will not "compromise" on their refusal of sanctions, for his part affirmed Emmanuel Macron, before the United Nations.


Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday, September 22 to the UN that the winner of the presidential election in the United States would have "

no other choice but to yield

" to the demands of Iran, which calls for the lifting US sanctions.

Read also: Iran: Europeans stand up against the sanctions

"

We are not a bargaining chip tied to US elections and US domestic politics

," he said in his speech pre-recorded and broadcast to the United Nations Annual General Assembly.

"

Any American government that emerges from the next election will have no choice but to give in to the resilience of the Iranian nation

," he added.

Emmanuel Macron, for his part, affirmed that France and its European allies Germany and the United Kingdom were "

not

going

to compromise

" on their refusal to support the reinstatement by the United States of UN sanctions against Iran.

Read also: In Iran, the repression continues against the backdrop of Covid-19

"

France, with its partners, German and British, will maintain its demand for full implementation of the 2015 Vienna agreement

" on Iranian nuclear power "

and will not accept the violations committed by Iran

", said the French president in his virtual speech to the UN General Assembly.

But "

we will not compromise on the activation of a mechanism that the United States, of its own accord, when leaving the agreement, is not in a position to activate

", he added. .

Because, according to him, "

that would be undermining the unity of the Security Council, the integrity of its decisions, and that would run the risk of further aggravating tensions in the region

".

"

Maximum pressure strategy

"

The United States unilaterally proclaimed on the night of Saturday to Sunday the return to international sanctions against Iran, lifted in 2015 in return for the Iranian commitment not to acquire atomic weapons.

This position was immediately denounced by Moscow and the Europeans parties to the nuclear agreement.

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Emmanuel Macron underlined that "

the strategy of maximum pressure

" decided by Donald Trump after having decided to withdraw his country from the agreement in 2018, had "

not at this stage made it possible to put an end to the destabilizing activities of Iran , nor to ensure that it will not be able to acquire nuclear weapons

”.

For him, "

we must build over time a useful framework for action (...) that is to say the capacity to complete the 2015 agreement

".

First in time to ensure that over time Iran will never gain access to nuclear weapons, but also by ensuring that we will provide responses to Iran's ballistic activity, but also to its destabilization in the region,

”he explained.

Source: lefigaro

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