Trump Says Negotiating Deal With Iran Getting Harder
Sumaira FH Published July 23, 2019 | 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 23rd July, 2019) US President Donald Trump said on Monday that making a deal with Iran is now harder than before.
"Frankly, it is getting harder for me to make a deal with Iran," Trump told reporters during a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan at the Oval Office.
Trump said Iran is disrespecting the United States and Washington is ready for the absolute worst scenario, but is also "ready for sense, too."
The US president called Iran a "very mixed up country," adding that "Iran does not know where they are."
With respect to statements that Iran arrested a network of CIA agents, Trump said it is a "totally a false story" and went on to accuse Tehran for supporting terrorism.
Earlier on Monday, the director of the Iranian Intelligence Ministry's counterespionage department said that Tehran uncovered a CIA network operating in Iran. The Tasnim news agency reported that the network was discovered on June 18 and some of the alleged spies have been sentenced to death while others received lengthy jail terms.
US-Iran relations have deteriorated since Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear agreement, last spring. The United States proclaimed it intends to bring down Iran's sale of oil to zero and re-introduced sanctions on almost all major sectors of the Iranian economy.
In May, Tehran announced its own decision to partially suspend obligations under the JCPOA and gave the other agreement signatories - France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, China and the European Union - 60 days to save the accord by facilitating oil exports and trade with Iran. As the deadline expired, Iran said it would begin enriching uranium beyond the 3.67 percent level set in the JCPOA and warned it would gradually abandon its nuclear commitments every 60 days.
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