The United States renewed the call of its European allies to withdraw from the nuclear agreement with Iran, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel confirmed that there is agreement with the Americans on the goal of putting Iran under pressure, but only disagreement in the means of implementation.
"The time has come for our European partners to stand with us and the Iranian people, and now it is time to withdraw from the nuclear agreement with Iran. The Iranian regime supports the Nazi Holocaust and tries to implement it again," US Vice President Mike Bens told the Munich International Security Conference.
"The Holocaust was a disaster, and no one, including the US vice president, could take the Holocaust as a way to create a political mood," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif told the German magazine Spiegel on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. . On the other hand, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in her speech before the speech of Bens at the conference: "It is true that we agree with the Americans on the goal of putting Iran under pressure, but there is disagreement in the means of implementation," calling for the maintenance of the nuclear agreement with Iran because it prevents manufacturing Tehran is a nuclear bomb.
Bens accused Iran two days ago of anti-Semitism like the Nazis in a repeat of his sharp statements against Tehran, a day after he attacked European countries for trying to limit the impact of US sanctions on Tehran at the Warsaw Conference on the Middle East in Poland, "We have a regime in Tehran that is breathing deadly threats," he said, adding that Iran poses the greatest threat to peace and security in the Middle East and that its regime is the largest financier. Of terrorism in the world.
In a related vein, the US State Department's account on Twitter quoted US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hawke as confirming US policy on doing everything in its power to reduce Iran's influence in Syria. "It's hard to imagine that Syria is peaceful and stable with the presence of Iranian forces on the ground ».
"The Iranian regime is exporting missiles to other parts of the Middle East, and then either they or one of their militias will fire those missiles at countries that Iran considers its enemies," Hawk said.
He added: "Iran has spent about $ 16 billion in 2013 in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, and no one can claim that that money was spent well." We do not see any company applying for a special payment mechanism to evade US sanctions On Iran, I think that any international company with links to the financial system in the United States will always choose the US market on the Iranian market ». The US criticism of Iran coincided with the announcement of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif, the day before yesterday, in an interview with the station «N. B. CNN, his country's attempt to launch a second satellite during the past two months failed.
Despite the failed attempts, Zarif's comments raise tensions with the United States, which is concerned that long-range ballistic missile technology can be used to launch missile warheads and not only to send satellites into space.
Last week, Iran continued to step up pressure from the United States, Europe and the UN Security Council to curb its missile activities and confirmed its intention to strengthen its military power and ballistic missile program. Iranian President Hassan Rowhani said during a speech in Tehran's "Freedom Square" Said that Iran is determined to strengthen its military power and its ballistic missile program, despite growing pressure from countries he has described as hostile to curbing its military activities.
"We have not asked and will not ask permission to develop different types of missiles, and we will continue our military career," Rowhani said, pledging to defeat US sanctions, which were re-imposed after US President Donald Trump decided last year to withdraw from Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers. 2015.
In line with Rohani's speech, Iran reviewed two of the two locally made ballistic missiles on the road leading to the field that saw the speech, and slightly further expanded the life-size models of passing missiles. In Rowhani's footsteps, the deputy commander of the so- »Hussein Salami, that Tehran will not withdraw its troops from the region, and rejected US calls to curb Tehran's regional influence.
Rohani's announcement of Iran's intention to strengthen its military power and ballistic missile program is a challenge to Western powers who believe that Iran's missile tests are destabilizing the Middle East. The escalation also challenges UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which enshrined the nuclear agreement it signed Iran with major powers in 2015, which called on Tehran to refrain for up to eight years from the development of ballistic missiles designed to carry nuclear weapons, but Tehran goes on missile tests, and claims that its missiles are unable to carry nuclear warheads.
Last week, the United States vowed to continue "unabated pressure" on Iran to deter its missile program, following Iran's unveiling of a new ballistic missile, days after the test of a passing missile. In a statement, State Department deputy spokesman Robert Paladino said, "Iran's blatant disregard of international norms should be addressed, and we must reestablish stricter international restrictions to deter Iran's missile program."
"Iran is a corrupt dictatorship, it will not get nuclear weapons, and Washington will not close its eyes to a system that calls for death to America," Trump said in a State of the Union address to members of Congress two weeks ago.