Henry Kissinger: Returning to the JCPOA is very dangerous.
In an interview, the former US foreign minister has described returning to the JCPOA nuclear agreement as “very dangerous”.
The former US foreign minister has described his country’s return to the JCPOA nuclear agreement with Iran as “dangerous”.
The 99-year-old Kissinger, in an interview with the Spectator, referred to the nuclear agreement negotiated during the presidency of Barack Obama with Iran as an “inadequate” and “dangerous” agreement.
He also said that he was against this agreement from the beginning. He said: “My opinion was that it would be very difficult to verify Iran’s promises and that the talks would create a pattern in which Iran’s nuclear progress would probably slow down a bit.”
Kissinger, who is one of the senior strategists in the field of American foreign policy, also said about the current negotiations for the return of the United States to the JCPOA: “Now the problem with the current nuclear negotiations is that it is very dangerous to return to an agreement that was inadequate from the beginning.”
Kissinger and a number of other politicians in America consider the JCPOA to be an “inadequate” agreement because it does not limit all the components of the power of the Islamic Republic of Iran, including regional power and missile power.
The former US Secretary of State added: “I still have all the concerns I had about the original agreement. “I haven’t seen the terms of that agreement yet, but there really is no alternative to removing Iran’s nuclear forces.”
In the past years, Western countries led by the United States and the Zionist regime have accused Iran of pursuing military goals in the country’s nuclear program. Iran has strongly denied these claims.
Iran emphasizes that as one of the signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it has the right to access nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
In addition, IAEA inspectors have visited Iran’s nuclear facilities many times but have never found any evidence that the country’s peaceful nuclear energy program has been diverted towards military purposes.