{"id":13165,"date":"2018-08-29T14:26:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13165"},"modified":"2018-08-29T14:26:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:26:47","slug":"irans-khamenei-says-ready-to-abandon-nuclear-deal-if-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13165","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Khamenei says ready to abandon nuclear deal if needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1363746\/middle-east\" readability=\"47\">\n<p>\nTEHRAN: Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that his government should be ready to \u201cset aside\u201d the 2015 nuclear deal if it is no longer in the country\u2019s national interests.<br \/>\u201cThe JCPOA (nuclear deal) is not the objective, it is only a means,\u201d he said in a meeting with the cabinet, according to his website.<br \/>\u201cNaturally, if we reach the conclusion that it is no longer maintaining our national interests, we will put it aside.\u201d<br \/>Khamenei said talks should continue with Europe, which is trying to salvage the 2015 agreement despite the withdrawal of the United States.<br \/>But he said the Iranian government \u201cmust not pin hope on the Europeans for issues such as the JCPOA or the economy.\u201d<br \/>\u201cWe must examine their promises with skepticism,\u201d he added.<br \/>Khamenei reiterated that Iran would not engage in any negotiations with the administration of US President Donald Trump, despite his offer of unconditional talks.<br \/>\u201c(The Americans) want to say they can bring anyone, even the Islamic republic, to the negotiating table.<br \/>\u201cBut as I have previously said in detail, no negotiations with them will take place,\u201d Khamenei said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that his government should be ready to \u201cset aside\u201d the 2015 nuclear deal if it is no longer in the country\u2019s national interests.\u201cThe JCPOA (nuclear deal) is not the objective, it is only a means,\u201d he said in a meeting with the cabinet, according to his&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}