Mogherini responds to Netanyahu
EU High Representative of for Foreign Affairs says she hasn’t seen arguments from Netanyahu that Iran isn’t complying with nuclear deal.
Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s High Representative of for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, on Monday responded to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s presentation on Iran.
“What I have seen from the first reports is that Prime Minister Netanyahu has not put into question Iran’s compliance with the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] commitments, meaning post-2015 nuclear commitments,” she said, asserting that an agreement was needed due to lack of trust between the sides.
“The JCPOA, the nuclear agreement, is not based on assumptions of good faith or trust – it is based on concrete commitments, verification mechanisms and a very strict monitoring of facts, done by the IAEA. The IAEA has published 10 reports, certifying that Iran has fully complied with its commitments,” continued Mogherini.
“And in any case, if any party and if any country has information of non-compliance, of any kind, it can and should address and channel this information to the proper, legitimate, recognized mechanisms, the IAEA and the Joint Commission [of the JCPOA] for the monitoring of the nuclear deal that I chair and that I convened just a couple of months ago. We have mechanisms in place to address eventual concerns.”
“Again, I have not seen from Prime Minister Netanyahu arguments for the moment on non-compliance, meaning violation by Iran of its nuclear commitments under the [nuclear] deal. And again, the deal was put in place exactly because there was no trust between the parties, otherwise we would not have required a nuclear deal to be put in place,” she concluded.
Netanyahu revealed intelligence from Iran’s secret nuclear files earlier on Monday, noting that “Iran lied big time” when its leaders denied that the Islamic Republic had a program to develop nuclear weapons.
The Prime Minister noted that after it signed the nuclear deal in 2015, Iran intensified its efforts to hide its secret nuclear files. He also pointed out that “in 2017, Iran moved its nuclear weapons files to a highly secret location in Tehran”.
Netanyahu addressed U.S. President Donald Trump’s upcoming decision on whether to remain in the Iran nuclear deal or not and said that he believed that Trump would withdraw from the deal.
“I am sure he will do the right thing, the right thing for the United States, the right thing for Israel, and the right thing for the peace of the world.”
Trump later responded to Netanyahu and said his speech “sends the right message” on Iran’s nuclear program.
The president called the 2015 Iran nuclear deal a “horrible agreement for the United States” and added that Netanyahu’s speech confirmed that he was “100% right” to criticize the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran.”
However, Trump refused to say whether he would withdraw from the nuclear deal.
The president has set a deadline of May 12 for Europe to fix the flaws of the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal.
WarSclerotic 
May 1, 2018 at 1:09 AM
Iran lied about never having a secret nuclear program. Second, even after the deal it continued to expand its nuclear program for future use. Third, Iran lied by not coming clean to the IAEA. Finally, the nuclear deal is based on lies based on Iranian deception.
May 1, 2018 at 1:11 AM
Netanyahu said that in 2003, Iran shut down the version of Project Amad that existed at the time and instead divided its nuclear program into both covert and overt components. Besides archiving the material for future use, Netanyahu said Iran continued to research nuclear weapons.
May 1, 2018 at 7:26 AM
This woman is a disgrace, a lier and supporter of the nazi-dictators in teheran !
I have to vomit !
May 1, 2018 at 2:38 PM
This Teheran whore tells us that she and the OTHER whores in the EU expected Iran to cheat. Funny, Imam Obama, the Kenyan Muslim never mentioned any such thing when he, John Kerry, Wendy Sherman, Bob Corker and Ben Cardin convinced everyone to RAM it down the throat of Israel in particular and the non Islamic world in general.
May 1, 2018 at 2:54 PM
Obama would rather lie than openly take an unfavorable position on anything.
May 1, 2018 at 3:07 PM
LS/IraB we are still dealing with the obama disaster but do we remember the iran contra scandal, selling rockets/weapons to iran by the USA under the Reagan administration while there was an weapons embargo ..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair
Just a thought , would it be possible that the anti tank weapons sold to Iran are used in the Israel / Lebanon war ?
Hezbollah are in bed with Iran , always was and always will, the Lebanon govement has butter on their head the same as the UN .
Iran has everywhere their proxy terrorists , would it not be nice to ventilate that a bit more and taken care of.
I have said it many times,not taking out hamas was a mistake .
hamas/iran in the south
lebanon/hezbollah/iran in the north
Syria/iran on the north
How long can you kick the can down the road, they become stronger and stronger .
As long Iran is ruled by the mad mullahs there is grave danger for Israel, deal with it NOW !
This is the RIGHT time, the safety of Israel can not depend on a election process in the USA, this administration send the right signals.
But how long will it be in charge , 2 years or 6 years ?