TEHRAN: In his first comments after Donald Trump said he intended to decertify the Iran nuclear deal, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, on Wednesday called the US president “foul-mouthed” and someone who “pretends to be an idiot.”
Speaking before a group of what was described by his office as “hundreds of young elites and outstanding scientific talents,” Khamenei said that the European opposition to Trump’s decision was “good, but not enough.”
“The Europeans must stand up against the US measures … including the sanctions they anticipate to emerge from Congress,” he said.
Last week President Trump said Iran was violating the nuclear accord and has threatened to withdraw the US from the deal of which several countries, including Russia, China, and the EU, are all also party to. So far, the other participants have said the deal stands.
Of Iran’s commitment to upholding the nuclear deal itself, Khamenei said that “so long as the other side has not torn up the JCPOA, we will not tear it up either,” he said, referring to the accord which is known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
“However, if they tear up the JCPOA, we will shred it.”
Khamenei told his audience that he didn’t want to spend his time commenting on Trump, Iran’s Press TV reported, saying “it would be a waste of time to respond to such blatherings and nonsensical remarks by the foul-mouthed US president.”
“The US president pretends to be an idiot, but this should not cause us to let our guard down,” Khamenei said.
“They want to take back young, faithful and developed Iran to 50 years ago, and of course this is not possible, but due to backwardness, they are incapable of understanding this reality, and for this reason they have made a miscalculation and suffered, and will suffer successive defeats at the hands of the Iranian nation,” he said.
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