“It is unlikely that any new agreement will be significantly different from or a significant improvement on the original agreement,” former Barack Obama told ABC.
The former US president in 2009-2017 pointed out that the agreement concluded in 2015 “worked for a long time” before the United States withdrew from it. This occurred during Donald Trump's first term.
Barack Obama on the Iran deal. “Ordinary people will not suffer”
Barack Obama said he hoped “the bombings would stop and ordinary people would no longer suffer as a result of the war.” According to the former American leader, the way to solve most problems is diplomacy, not military action.
“Faced with many complex foreign policy issues, the idea that we can simply impose our will by force or bombing can sometimes seem tempting,” he admitted.
According to Barack Obama, however, it is better to “spend time exploring diplomatic avenues and exhausting the possibilities of reaching agreements that will not solve 100 percent of the problem, but will solve 80 or 90 percent.” “You'd think we'd have learned our lesson a long time ago, but it seems like we have to relearn it every now and then,” he added.
The US-Iran agreement. Donald Trump criticized the previous agreement
US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that the United States will sign an agreement with Iran on Sunday to end the war in the Middle East. This information has not yet been confirmed by Tehran, AFP emphasized.
The 2015 international JPCOA agreement stipulated that Iran would limit its nuclear ambitions, impose a limit on uranium enrichment and allow international inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect its facilities in exchange for lifting some of the sanctions imposed on Iran's oil resources and unfreezing billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets, CNN recalled.
US-Iran agreement. “The devil is in the details”
Two months ago, Donald Trump assured that Iran had agreed to all his demands, including stopping financing terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah. But then the American side stopped commenting on this matter. A senior administration official told CNN on Friday that Iran has pledged not to finance terrorist groups.
“Even if this is true, the devil is in the details, such as what it means in practice and how it can be verified,” CNN pointed out. If Donald Trump fails to achieve something concrete on this front, it will mean that he has failed to achieve one of the four key goals he set for himself at the beginning of the war, the station emphasized.
