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A photo taken last week shows Iranian women pass an anti-US mural on their way to the former US embassy in Tehran to attend a demonstration marking the 37th anniversary of the US Embassy takeover. Photo: EPA

Trump is unable to tear up multi-nation nuclear deal, Iran’s President Rouhani says

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Donald Trump won’t be able to undo world powers’ nuclear deal with Iran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said.

The 2015 accord, signed between Iran and six powers including the US, “cannot be overturned by one government’s decision,” Rouhani told his cabinet on Wednesday, according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency. Trump told a pro-Israel lobbying group in the US in March that “my number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran.”

The pact, which brought the lifting of key economic sanctions in January, has allowed one of the world’s last major untapped frontier markets to open its doors to international companies as the Iranian government seeks to attract foreign investment and new technologies. On Wednesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran has continued living up to its side of the nuclear bargain.
A handout picture made available by the Iranian presidential official website shows Iranian president Hassan Rouhani during cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday. Photo: EPA

Rouhani said Trump’s victory won’t be able to stop Iran’s economic growth.

The Islamic Republic’s “policies of engagement with the world and the breaking of nuclear sanctions have put Iran’s relations with other countries on an irreversible path of growth,” Rouhani said.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s lead negotiator in the accord, said the US President-elect “must fully understand the realities of today’s world.”

“Considering that Iran and the US don’t have formal political relations, what’s important is that the future US president complies to the commitments of the multilateral nuclear deal,” Zarif told a news conference in Romania.

Iran’s TEDPIX share index dropped on Trump’s win.

“The markets in Iran were generally expecting Mrs Clinton to win and this has had an impact on pretty much all sectors in the stock exchange,” said Masoud Gholampour, an analyst at Novin Investment Bank in Tehran. “The market is showing a negative reaction in general because the nuclear deal could be affected.”

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