EU ministers close ranks to support Iran deal

LUXEMBOURG: Europe will give fresh backing to the Iran nuclear deal on Monday after US President Donald a belligerent speech that alarmed allies across the Atlantic.

EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg will add their voices to a chorus of international its nuclear ambitions in return for the lifting of punishing sanctions.

of the deal in his much anticipated White House speech on Friday, leaving that decision to US lawmakers, but restated his belief the deal was letting Iran off the hook.

ministers were expected to express their “full support for continued implementation” of the deal negotiated with Iran over 12 years by the US, Britain, France, China, Germany and Russia.

Germany delivered a clear rebuke Friday which said the deal remained “in our shared national security interest” and urged US lawmakers to think carefully before doing anything to undermine the agreement.

UN inspectors have repeatedly certified that Iran is sticking to its technical requirements under what he called the “fanatical re to the “spirit” of the deal.

Deal ‘necessary, important’

members of Congress not to turn their backs on the accord, which was endorsed unanimously by the UN Security Council, and on Friday the bloc’s top diplomat Federica Mogherini, touted as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate for her work on the deal, also delivered an an

single country in the world that can terminate a UN Security Council resolution that has been adopted, and adopted unanimously, and

“It is clearly not in the hands of any president of any country in the world to terminate an agreement United States has many powers

Diplomats say that European - cerns about Iran’s activities not covered by the nuclear deal -- notably its ballistic missile programme and involvement in numerous Middle

But they say these should be dealt with in other forums and warn it would be a calamitous - ment of the nuclear deal.

“Renegotiation is out of the important and stops Iran becoming a nuclear power,” one EU diplomat said.

Ditching the deal when Iran keeping up its end of the bargain would send a signal to other rogue regimes such as North Korea that negotiating with the international community was a waste of time,