Obama warns against ditching Iran nuclear deal on one-year anniversary

At the start of his final week in the White House, Barack Obama issued a warning to the incoming Trump administration about the value of the nuclear deal with Iran.

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“The United States must remember that this agreement was the result of years of work,” read a statement released by the White House on Monday, which did not mention the new president by name.

The deal, the statement said, “represents an agreement between the world’s major powers – not simply the United States and Iran.”

The White House said the agreement, implemented one year ago on Monday, “must be measured against the alternatives – a diplomatic resolution that prevents Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is far preferable to an unconstrained Iranian nuclear program or another war in the Middle East.”

 

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