US President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned that he will “walk away” from a bad Nuclear deal with Iran, emphasising that the goal of the agreement is to ensure that Tehran does not get a Nuclear weapon and that the pact has a strong verifiable mechanism.
“There are deep-seated disagreements and divisions between the United States and Iran. And those aren’t going to go away overnight.
The goal of the Nuclear negotiations is not to rely on trust but to set up a verifiable mechanism where we are cutting off the pathways for Iran to obtain a Nuclear weapon,” Obama told White House reporters at a joint news conference with his Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff.
Obama’s remarks in response to a question came as the Secretary of State John Kerry, his Energy Secretary are “deeply engaged in negotiations” with Iran in Geneva.
“My hope is that they can achieve an agreement, but my instructions to them have been extremely clear,” Obama said.
“The framework agreement that was established at lausanne is one that, if implemented effectively and codified properly, would, in fact, achieve my goal, which is Iran not obtaining a Nuclear weapon,” said the US President.