Key players in Iran nuke deal aim message at Trump: It works
The United Nations, the European Union and key players in the Iran nuclear agreement delivered a united message Wednesday aimed at U.S. President-elect Donald Trump: The deal is working and must be maintained to keep Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon.
Speaker after speaker at a U.N. Security Council meeting on implementation of the 2015 deal stressed its historic nature and its success after its first year.
The agreement was negotiated by Iran and six world powers — the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany — and enshrined in a legally binding U.N. resolution. It imposed limits on the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for lifting U.N. economic sanctions.
While Trump was not mentioned by name, their messages were clearly intended for the new U.S. leader who will be inaugurated Friday and has strongly criticized the Iran deal, vowing at times during the presidential campaign either to walk away from it or to renegotiate it.