{"id":44647,"date":"2018-01-16T14:22:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T09:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44647"},"modified":"2018-01-16T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T09:22:46","slug":"moscow-will-not-support-us-bid-to-change-iran-nuclear-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44647","title":{"rendered":"Moscow will not support US bid to change Iran nuclear deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MOSCOW Jan 16 (TNS):<\/strong> Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow will not support attempts by Washington to modify the Iran nuclear deal, arguing such a move could also complicate diplomacy over North Korea\u2019s nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov spoke days after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would waive nuclear sanctions against Iran for the last time to give Washington and its European allies a chance to fix the \u201cterrible flaws\u201d of the 2015 nuclear deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not support what the United States is trying to do, changing the wording of the agreement, incorporating things that will be absolutely unacceptable for Iran,\u201d Lavrov told a news conference in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s top diplomat, who stressed that Russia will work to preserve the existing Iran nuclear deal, also warned that the agreement\u2019s collapse could be detrimental to dialogue with North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov suggested Pyongyang would look at how Iran had been treated by Washington and wonder if any deal it did with the United States on its own missile and nuclear program would hold or also be called into question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the deal is put aside and Iran is told, \u2018you keep up with your obligations or we will impose sanctions again\u2019, then you have to see it from North Korea\u2019s point of view,\u201d said Lavrov, stressing the international community should approach the two countries\u2019 nuclear programs in the same manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are being promised that sanctions will be lifted if they give up their nuclear program. They will give it up, but no one will lift the sanctions against Pyongyang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW Jan 16 (TNS): Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow will not support attempts by Washington to modify the Iran nuclear deal, arguing such a move could also complicate diplomacy over North Korea\u2019s nuclear weapons program. Lavrov spoke days after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would waive nuclear sanctions against Iran for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,565],"tags":[932,830],"class_list":["post-44647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-moscow","tag-international","tag-moscow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44649,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44647\/revisions\/44649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}