Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has mocked the United States President Donald Trump on Friday over the summit failure of Trump with his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-Un this week aimed at Korean peninsula denuclearization, vowing that Washington would not be able to get a better Iran nuclear deal than the one that has exited last year.
A second summit between Trump and Kim held this week on Wednesday and Thursday over sanctions and nuclear deal, and both sides have conflicting accounts of what exactly happened, raising several questions over the future of their denuclearization talks.
According to Reuters news reports, in a tweet, Zarif wrote, “President Trump should’ve now realized that pageantries, photo-ops & flip-flops don’t make for serious diplomacy.”
He added tweeting, “It took 10 years of posturing plus two years-literally thousands of hours of negotiations to hammer out every word of the 150-page JCPOA (Iran nuclear accord).”
Zarif, who again resumed his job after President Hassan Rouhani dismissed his resignation application, said, “You’ll never get a better deal.”
Earlier, White House secretary Sarah Sanders, in a tweet, wrote: “President (Barack) Obama refused to walk away from a bad deal with Iran. President @realDonaldTrump refuses to make the same mistake with Iran, North Korea, or anybody else.”
After the US president abandoned the nuclear deal with Iran and reimposed US sanctions in May, Zarif had come under heavy criticism from hardline opponents, accusing him of selling out his country.