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WASHINGTON: The Trump Administration is working with its allies and partners to force Iran to change its behavior and stop its actions, said the White House a few days after the president Donald Trump warned Tehran
Remarks by White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley came as an unconfirmed report in Australian media said the United States is preparing to launch a strike against l & # 39; Iran.
"I can not confirm I refer you to DOD (Department of Defense) about it
What I can tell you is that the President has been very clear about what's going on. he thinks of Iran, "Gidley told reporters abroad. Trump warned Hbadan Rouhani on Monday that Tehran was facing "consequences that few people through history have suffered before" he threatened the US again, just hours after the Iranian president warned that hostile threats from the United States trigger "the mother of all wars."
"Rouhani had also warned Trump to stop" playing with the lion's tail "and threatening Iran," otherwise you will regret it. "
the Iranian nuclear agreement of 2015 was concluded by the Obama administration calling it" the worst "agreement ever negotiated.
" Their actions – their destabilization of the region, their desire and their efforts to get a nuclear weapon – that's one of the reasons that he called the Iran case the worst case he's ever seen, the worst case of history, and why it came out of it, "said Gidley:" We know that the agreement with Iran has not prevented a path from Avoid Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon;
But we are working with our partners and allies to try to bring Iran to change its behavior and stop its action throughout the region.
And we are working with Israel to do the same, "he said in response to a question
Trump alleged that the nuclear deal did not sufficiently limit the" destabilizing activities "of the Iran in the region and could neither detect nor prevent any violation of its terms
forced Iran to reduce its uranium enrichment capacity to prevent it from develop nuclear weapons, and imposed rigorous verification processes, in exchange for easing sanctions.
Iran insists that its nuclear program is entirely peaceful. By the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which stated that Iran was honoring its commitments.
Earlier, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had said that he wanted to try to prevent Iranian oil importing countries by November. The US Treasury said that there would be periods of slowdown of 90 and 180 days before the implementation of the sanctions.
The first deadline, August 6, will affect the purchase of US Dollars, the trade in gold and some other metals, as well as aviation and the automotive industry [19659003] The next, November 4, will target Iranian oil and financial institutions.
Iran is one of the largest oil producers in the world, with exports worth billions of dollars each year.
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