Max Pressure Policy Already Defunct, Iranian FM Reminds US
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The foreign minister of Iran shrugged off the US president’s decision to renew his so-called "maximum pressure" campaign on Tehran, advising the US not to test what has already proved abortive.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet session in Tehran on Wednesday, Abbas Araqchi reacted to US President Donald Trump’s move to sign a presidential memorandum re-imposing Washington's maximum pressure policy on Iran that was practiced throughout his first term.
“I should say that the maximum pressure (on Iran) is a failed experience and retrying it will go nowhere,” he said.
Araqchi noted that the attempts to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons are technically unnecessary, because Iran is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has issued a clear fatwa on the prohibition of use of nukes.
