US President Barack Obama on Monday marked the first anniversary of the nuclear deal with Iran by emphasizing its "significant and concrete results" and warning against undoing a pact supported by the world's major powers.
In language that seemed clearly directed at incoming president Donald Trump, who is set to take office on Friday, a White House statement said "the United States must remember that this agreement was the result of years of work, and represents an agreement between the world's major powers -- not simply the United States and Iran."
It said the deal had "achieved significant, concrete results in making the United States and the world a safer place" and "verifiably prevents Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon."
Such a diplomatic solution, it added, was "far preferable to an unconstrained Iranian nuclear program or another war in the Middle East."
Trump has often denounced the nuclear deal, and in a Sunday interview with the Times of London and Bild newspaper of Germany he continued his criticism, saying, "I'm not happy with the Iran deal, I think it's one of the worst deals ever made."
But he declined to say whether he intended to "renegotiate" the deal, as he asserted regularly during the presidential campaign.
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