MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 15th July, 2022) A senior spokesman for the Iranian military, Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi, on Friday slammed pronouncements by US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid that Washington and Jerusalem could use force against Iran, calling such statements psychological warfare and delusion, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported.
On Thursday, Biden and Lapid pledged to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear arms by all means, including by the use of force.
According to the news outlet, Shekarchi said that both the US and Israel have a long list of fails in the middle East, that is why they should consider the real situation in the region rather than threaten Iran.
In 2015, Iran signed a nuclear deal, known officially as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), with the P5+1 group, which includes the United States, China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, Germany and the European Union. It required Tehran to scale back its nuclear program and drastically reduce its uranium reserves in exchange for sanctions relief, including the lifting of an arms embargo five years after the deal was made.
In 2018, then US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA and reimposed sanctions on Iran, to which the latter responded by gradually abandoning its nuclear commitments.
After Biden took office, the US entered into talks to revive the deal.
