“So-called ‘Maximum Pressure’ is a failed experience. Repeating that will only yet again compel ‘Maximum Resistance’. Smart people ought to choose ‘Maximum Wisdom’ instead,” Abbas Araghchi said on X.
Trump on Tuesday restored a presidential memorandum against Iran in response to its efforts to enrich its nuclear capabilities and to prevent Tehran from acquiring an atomic weapon, according to the White House. He said he was “unhappy” about reimposing sanctions on the Islamic republic and expressed interest in negotiating a deal.
“In addition to being a party in good standing to the NPT and other global nonproliferation instruments, Iran has already made abundantly clear that 'under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons,’” Araghchi stressed, with the Islamic republic repeatedly stating that a nuclear weapon goes against its doctrine.
Araghchi instead called for an alternative to the maximum pressure, suggesting lifting economic pressures and saying “it is not difficult to reach practical assurances that Iran will not have nuclear weapons.”
While signing the document, Trump warned that Tehran is “too close” to a nuclear weapon,
Under a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran agreed to curb its nuclear enrichment program in exchange for much-needed relief from crippling sanctions.
But the deal began unraveling in 2018, when Washington, under Trump’s first administration, unilaterally withdrew from the accord and re-imposed a sanction regime of “maximum pressure” on the Islamic republic.
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