{"id":371674,"date":"2018-08-01T09:40:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T08:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-us-must-return-to-nuclear-deal-before-future-talks-with-tehran-rouhani-aide\/"},"modified":"2018-08-01T09:40:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T08:40:42","slug":"prison-planet-com-us-must-return-to-nuclear-deal-before-future-talks-with-tehran-rouhani-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-us-must-return-to-nuclear-deal-before-future-talks-with-tehran-rouhani-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb US must return to nuclear deal before future talks with Tehran \u2013 Rouhani aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/434692-iran-us-talks-deal\/\"><strong>RT<\/strong><\/a><br \/>July 31, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>A return to the 2015 nuclear deal is the key to future talks between the US and Iran, an adviser to President Hassan Rouhani said. President Donald Trump is ready to negotiate, but believes the existing deal is \u201ca waste of paper.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cRespecting the Iranian nation\u2019s rights, reducing hostilities and returning to the nuclear deal are steps that can be taken to pave the bumpy road of talks between Iran and America,\u201d<\/em> Hamid Aboutalebi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrAboutalebi\/status\/1024022216025899008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He was commenting on remarks made by Trump a day earlier, when the US leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/434670-trump-meet-rouhani-any-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> he was open to talks with Iran <em>\u201canytime they want\u201d<\/em>without preconditions. The proposal represented a drastic change of tone, considering that last week Trump was embroiled in threatening exchanges with the Iranian leadership. This included a warning to President Rouhani that Iran could face <em>\u201cCONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE,\u201d<\/em> in an all-caps <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1021234525626609666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag noopener noreferrer\">tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between the two nations had reached a low point since Trump unilaterally pulled out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran\u2019s nuclear program in May. The move was widely condemned by China, Russia and even the EU, who are all also signatories of the deal. Washington has since hit Iran with a new round of sanctions and announced a plan to block the country\u2019s oil trade.<\/p>\n<p>Back in May, Trump called the Iran deal <em>\u201cdefective at its core,\u201d<\/em> and his opinion didn\u2019t seem to change. Speaking about possible US-Iran talks, the president explicitly ruled out the possibility of keeping the existing deal, calling it <em>\u201ca waste of paper.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Iran, on the other hand, made it clear that the Islamic Republic is against changing the JCPOA.\u00a0<em>\u201cWe will neither outsource our security, nor will we renegotiate or add on to a deal we have already implemented in good faith,\u201d<\/em> Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/05\/javad-zarif-iran-won-bullied-renegotiate-nuclear-deal-180503103003862.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag noopener...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/us-must-return-to-nuclear-deal-before-future-talks-with-tehran-rouhani-aide.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RTJuly 31, 2018 A return to the 2015 nuclear deal is the key to future talks between the US and Iran, an adviser to President Hassan Rouhani said. President Donald Trump is ready to negotiate, but believes the existing deal is \u201ca waste of paper.\u201d \u201cRespecting the Iranian nation\u2019s rights, reducing hostilities and returning to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}