‘Iran could quit N-deal in hours if new US sanctions imposed’

DUBAI / Reuters

Iran could abandon its nuclear agreement with world powers “within hours” if the United States imposes any more
new sanctions, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said
on Tuesday.
“If America wants to go back to the experience (of imposing sanctions), Iran would certainly return in a short time — not a week or a month but within hours — to conditions more advanced than before the start of negotiations,” Rouhani told a session of parliament broadcast live on state television.
Iran says new sanctions that the United States has imposed on it breach the agreement it reached in 2015 with the United States, Russia, China and three European powers in which it agreed to curb its nuclear work in return for the lifting of most sanctions.
The US Treasury imposed sanctions on six Iranian firms in late July for their role in the development of a ballistic missile programme after Tehran launched a rocket capable
of putting a satellite into orbit.