"Worn-out United States accusations can't mask its admission of Iran's compliance" with a 2015 nuclear deal, Zarif wrote on Twitter. His tone suggested that even if Iran is fulfilling the letter of its nuclear commitments, the deal remains on unsure footing. "Our allies have repeatedly indicated that they will not follow our lead in destroying the nuclear deal nor will they join us on a path to war with Iran".
North Korea has carried out a number of missile tests in defiance of United Nations sanctions and the hostile rhetoric between Pyongyang and Washington has steadily escalated.
"We will impose more sanctions against the North Korea", he said.
Iran has named 29 companies from more than a dozen countries as being allowed to bid for oil and gas projects using the new, less restrictive Iran Petroleum Contract (IPC) model, the oil ministry news website SHANA reported yesterday (2 January).
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Wednesday of the danger Iran poses to the Middle East and the world and said the global nuclear deal with Tehran ultimately would not achieve its goal of curtailing Iran's nuclear ambitions. "It only delays their goal of becoming a nuclear state". But he said its "nuclear ambitions" remained "a grave risk to worldwide peace and security".
The landmark 2015 agreement saw crippling sanctions lifted after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) certified Tehran had restricted its sensitive nuclear activities. "Buying off a power for a short period of time" is not a prudent way to deal with Iran.
During his presidential campaign, Trump called the agreement "the worst deal ever negotiated", raising questions over whether he would rip up the agreement once he took office.
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The Trump administration's inter-agency review of policy towards Iran will examine whether the lifting of sanctions against Tehran is in the United States national security interests.
Iran also "maintains a long-standing hostility towards Israel, providing weapons, training and funding to Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations", said the secretary of state, citing reports that Iran displayed a missile inscribed "death to Israel" during a military parade on Tuesday.
Trump has followed through with a pledge to pull the USA out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sweeping free trade deal President Barack Obama negotiated.
"The Trump administration is now conducting across the entire government a review of our Iran policy", Tillerson said.
What has this got to do with North Korea?
Trump's Secretary of State said the Iran nuclear agreement "fails to achieve the objective of a non-nuclear Iran".
North Korea's aim is to be able to put a nuclear warhead on an intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach targets around the world, including the US.
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