Washington DC May 2 : Former US Secretary of State John Kerry has come to the fore and defended the Iran nuclear deal, which US President Donald Trump brands as the “worst deal ever” and has often threatened to terminate it.
Kerry’s “dogged efforts” in 2014 and 2015 were vital during the marathon negotiations which resulted in the Iran nuclear deal — also referred to as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA, CNN reported.
Kerry went on a Twitter spree to display his support and defence for the 2015 agreement.
“Every detail PM Netanyahu presented yesterday was every reason the world came together to apply years of sanctions and negotiate the Iran nuclear agreement – because the threat was real and had to be stopped,” Kerry wrote on Tuesday.
“It’s working!” Kerry added of the Obama-era agreement he helped negotiate. “That’s why Israeli security experts are speaking out.”
This comes a day after when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that the Iran nuclear deal is based on lies and that Iranian officials were “brazenly lying” when they said Iran wasn’t pursuing nuclear weapons.
“The nuclear deal is based on lies. It’s based on Iranian lies and Iranian deception. Iran is brazenly lying when it said it never had a nuclear weapons programme. Iran planned at the highest level to continue work related to nuclear weapons under different guises and using the same personnel,” CNN reported Netanyahu as saying during an address from the Israel Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv.
