Iran says Trump win not to jeopardize deals

Iran says the election of Donald Trump as the new president of the United States will have no impacts on its industrial deals that it has sealed with global corporations.

According to Press TV, Mohammad-Reza Nematzadeh, minister of industry, mine and trade, told reporters that the deals the country has signed over major industrial projects were independent from the nuclear deal that has come under repeated attacks by Trump in his campaign speeches. 

Nematzadeh said the foreign parties to Iran’s industrial contracts had in several occasions demanded to devise a mechanism to link their implementation on the fate of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). 

“However, we never accepted any preconditions [for signing the deals],” he said. “None of the contracts that we have signed contain any reference to the JCPOA and we will go ahead with them under any condition”. 

Iran’s industries minister further emphasized that the US under Trump cannot unilaterally cancel the nuclear deal with Iran that the administration of the outgoing president Barack Obama sealed with Tehran together with four other Security Council member states plus Germany - the so-called P5+1 - last year.  

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