Iranian leader calls Trump a dictator, blasts Iran strategy
Source: The Hill
BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 10/14/17 10:18 AM EDT
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blasted President Trump as "a dictator" in a televised address on Friday after Trump's announcement that he would not certify the multination Iran nuclear deal.
“The Iranian people will not bend down before a dictator. It has never surrendered and will never,” Rouhani said in comments reported by The Wall Street Journal, adding that “No paragraph or article or note will be added” to please Trump.
Rouhani's scathing comments come after Trump announced on Friday that the 2015 deal, which was brokered in part by the Obama administration, was not in the national security interests of the U.S., and aided what he called Iran's support for terror organizations in the Middle East.
“We will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence, more terror and the very real threat of Iran’s nuclear breakout," Trump said, stopping short of killing the accord completely. Instead, the president asked that Congress pass new goals that Iran would have to attain in regards to its nuclear program in order to avoid additional sanctions in the future.
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