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US has tendency to violate its end of bargain: Commentator

Sunday, 15 January 2017 5:49 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 15 January 2017 6:01 PM ]

(From L to R) US Secretary of State John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, Robert Malley, member of the U.S. National Security Council, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, head of Iran Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wait to start a meeting at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland, March 29, 2015. (Photo by Reuters)

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi has accused Washington and its allies of having done whatever in their power, over the past year, to throw a wrench in the implementation of the nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), but Iran’s vigilance has foiled all such plots. He said Tehran will not re-negotiate the JCPOA, adding that if US President-elect Donald Trump goes ahead with his campaign pledge to “tear apart the deal, Iran will burn it.”

An author and commentator believes the United States has a tendency to violate its end of the bargain, adding that Washington is bent on extending various conflicts and creating new ones because its entire economy is dependent on war.

“So you have to understand that US policy is finally not controlled by the president. I mean there are a lot of interests in the deep state that dictate what occurs,” John Steppling told Press TV in an interview on Sunday.

He also stated that Trump’s rhetoric about Iran has not been promising, though it is very hard to predict what he will do in terms of the nuclear deal with Iran.

Steppling further opined that this is a very strange period of analyzing US actions and policy, because technically it is still President Barack Obama’s lame duck period and Trump has not really become president yet.

He also noted that it is probably “overly optimistic” to think there is going to be substantial change in US policy.

“One would hope for reasonable people [to take office] with Trump’s appointments, but that seems very unlikely because these things do not seem to change very much. The same people are part of a revolving door between defense [minister], Joint Chiefs [of Staff], CIA, NSA, the State Department and the defense contracting business,” he said.

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