Rex Tillerson
U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has accused Iran of continuing and alarming provocations aimed at destabilizing the Middle East and undermining American interests in the region. About it reports BBC News.
“If you let the situation to chance, Iran could go the same path as North Korea, and grab for the whole world”, — said the head of American diplomacy.
On 19 April President of the United States Donald trump instructed the national security Council (NSC) to assess the conditions of the nuclear deal with Iran. In connection with this order Tillerson wrote a letter to the speaker of the house of representatives of the U.S. Congress, Paul Ryan, in which he called Iran the leading state sponsor of terrorism.
3 Feb trump in his Twitter has published a recording in which he said that Iran is playing with fire. A day earlier, the American leader has described the nuclear deal with Tehran as “terrible”.
Iran and the six international mediators (US, Russia, China, Britain, France, Germany) in mid-July 2015 reached agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program. The Islamic Republic has made commitments to limit work in the field of uranium enrichment in exchange for lifting some sanctions.
In December 2016 the USA extended for 10 years, the restrictive measures against Iran, including because of the continuing in the country of works on creation of ballistic missiles.