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    Debate in Iran: Is nuclear deal worth keeping without US?

    May 14, 2018 6 minutes
    Source: Karen Norris/Staff

    President Trump’s decision to withdraw unilaterally from the landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal last week sparked fireworks in Tehran.

    Hard-line Iranian lawmakers – who always opposed the deal anyway because of the limits it imposed on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for easing sanctions – clustered around the dais in parliament and torched copies of a US flag and the text of the deal as they chanted “Death to America!”

    Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made clear that Mr. Trump’s decision was, in his view, further proof that the US could never be trusted to keep its word.

    But Iran has not yet ratcheted up its uranium enrichment, nor dusted off mothballed centrifuges, nor kicked out United Nations inspectors. Instead, Iran has launched a diplomatic offensive to save the deal, calling on the other signatories to provide guarantees within two months that will keep the deal alive.

    Foreign Minister Javad Zarif was in

    Wedge between US, EuropeHard-liners: Rouhani was dupedAn I-told-you-so tone

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