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If the new US President Donald Trump tears up the nuclear deal. Iran will be ready to ramp its nuclear program back up. said Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali-Akbar Salehi.
Salehi stressed that Tehran does not want to see the nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to be torn up. but Iran will go back to the pre-JCPOA conditions if it happens.
In the first comments on Trump`s Jan 20 inauguration from a high-ranking member of Iran`s government. Salehi. who is also a vice-president. said he viewed the absence of a mention of Iran in Trump`s inaugural speech as `positive.
He also dismissed the new US administration`s intention to develop a `state of the art` missile defense system to stave off attacks from North Korea and Iran.`
Salehi said he watched the inauguration with the expectation that Trump would mention Iran or its nuclear deal. But he did not raise either.
