Iran’s Chief Negotiator: We Won

Iran’s chief negotiator, Abbas Araqchi, who helped his country secure the nuclear deal with the U.S. and other Western countries, is claiming victory.

“No facility will be closed; enrichment will continue, and qualitative and nuclear research will be expanded,” Araqchi recently said, explaining the deal in an interview with the propaganda organ the Iranian Students News Agency. “All research into a new generation of centrifuges will continue.”

The nuclear deal is supposed to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. But if the chief negotiator for Iran is to be believed, his country’s pursuit will continue, practically unchanged.

The deal was praised by President Obama at the White House yesterday who told Americans to “give peace a chance.”

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