Trump’s remark on JCPOA campaign rhetoric: Analyst

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is not a deal between Iran and the US only, rejecting US President-elect Donald Trump's remarks during his election campaign that he would "tear up" the deal or try to renegotiate its terms if he was elected president. 

E. Michael Jones, the editor of Culture Wars magazine, believes Trump’s remarks on the nuclear deal are “campaign rhetoric” which will be changed "in the light of reality."

“I think Iran is going to be like the wall with Mexico. Remember him [Trump] talking about the wall, he is going to build a wall. Well he is not going to build a wall, it is impossible to build a wall with Mexico, but he got a lot of votes because they were unhappy with Mexican immigrants. I think the tearing up the agreement with Iran is going to be something like that,” the analyst told Press TV in an interview on Friday.

He also stated the main factor driving Trump’s election was “domestic dissatisfaction with globalism... not his expertise in foreign policy."

The analyst went on to say that if Trump goes along with Washington's warmongering policies in the Middle East, he will “wreck” his domestic policy which has put him in office.

Therefore, he said, Trump has to back away from such foreign policies, adding that he is not going to “antagonize” Iran.  

Jones further said Trump’s foreign policy toward Iran is incoherent and his position on the Islamic Republic does not make any sense.

However, he said, it is a reaction to what US President Barack Obama did, and a function of the fact that Trump grew up in New York City, where he had to deal with the Jews.

“So we have this contradictory attitude that he has toward the Jews. On the one hand, he told the Jewish Republicans 'I do not want your money because if you give me your money you control me.' On the other, hand he went to AIPAC and basically groveled and said whatever the big Israel lobby wanted him to say,” he stated.  

According to the analyst, the main issue in the US foreign policy at this point is Russia not Iran.

The JCPOA agreement was signed between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers, namely Russia, China, France, Britain, the US and Germany, on July 14, 2015.

Under the deal, Iran agreed to limit certain aspects of its nuclear program in return for the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council, the US and the European Union.

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