Iran threatens to quit nuclear deal

TEHRAN: President Hassan Rouhani warned on Tuesday that Iran could with world powers within hours if the United States keeps on imposing new sanctions.

In a speech to parliament, he also hit out at US counterpart Donald Trump saying that he had shown the world that Washington was “not a good partner”.

Rouhani’s comments come with the nuclear deal under mounting pressure after Tehran carried out missile tests and strikes, and Washington imposed new sanctions— with each accusing the other of

Rouhani warned that Iran was deal, which saw the lifting of most international sanctions in return for curbs on its nuclear program, if Washington persisted.

“Those who try to return to the language of threats and sanctions are prisoners of their past delusions,” he said in the

“If they want to go back to that time—not weeks or months, but in the scale of hours and days—we -

He said Iran did prefer to stick with the nuclear deal, which he - lateralism” but that this was not the “only option.”

Rouhani said Trump had shown he was an unreliable partner not just for Iran but for US allies.

“In recent months, the world has witnessed that the US, in ad breaking of its promises in the and shown its allies that the US is neither a good partner nor a reliable negotiating party,” he said.

He highlighted Trump’s decisions to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement and international trade deals.

Iran’s parliament on Sunday - lion dollars in funding for the country’s missile program and foreign operations of the elite to the new US sanctions.