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Iran's foreign minister called on Wednesday on US president-elect Donald Trump to stick to international agreements following his threats during the election campaign to tear up a nuclear deal with Tehran.
"Every US president has to understand the realities of today's world. The most important thing is that the future US president stick to agreements, to engagements undertaken," Mohammed Javad Zarif said in Romania.
Trump has vowed to rip up last year's deal with world powers which lifted international sanctions in return for curbs on Iran's nuclear programme.
Tehran insists its nuclear programme is peaceful and has so far met its obligations under the deal, but supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said he would happily "burn" the agreement if Trump decides to tear it up.
Some Iranians believe the US president-elect will not make good on his threat. "The Trump of the campaign is different to Trump the president," said Allaeddine Borujerdi, chairman of parliament's foreign affairs committee.
"It is natural that the American president is constrained by international rules and must apply them, notably on the nuclear deal," the ISNA news agency quoted him as saying. Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation said it was prepared for any eventuality.
"We have defined our nuclear programme in such a way that we can continue in any situation," spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi told the state broadcaster. The deputy commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Salami, said it made no difference to Iran who was in the White House.
"When the Republicans were in power, they threatened us and showed their hostility... and when the Democrats were in power, the policies of the United States were the same," Salami told the Fars news agency.
Iran says the United States has not stuck to the spirit of the nuclear deal since it came into force in January, because a raft of unilateral US sanctions remain in place that have left it frozen out of the international banking system. The US Congress is due to vote next month on whether to renew those sanctions, which are linked to Iran's human rights record and ballistic missile tests. - AFP
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