Days after the US president walked away from a three-year-old deal that mandated rigorous scrutiny of Iranian facilities, senior administration officials said monitoring should continue regardless.

Known officially as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the deal between Tehran and major world powers forces Iran to open any site to inspectors within 24 days at most and introduced 24-hour remote surveillance at some sites.

Supporters of the Obama-era accord argue it provided “the world’s most robust” monitoring regime, allowing access to the Islamic republic’s most sensitive nuclear sites.

Speaking at a rally in Indiana on Thursday Trump said tough inspections were still needed.

“We must be able to go to a site and check that site. We have to be able to go into their military bases to see whether or not they’re cheating,” he said.

The White House is demanding the existing inspection regime, however imperfect, continue under the aegis of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog.

“We expect Iran will continue to implement the Additional Protocol and cooperate with the IAEA whether or not the JCPOA remains in place,” one senior administration official said.

A second official confirmed to AFP on Thursday that Washington still wanted the inspections.

Other signatories to the Iran deal — including Tehran, China and European powers — have vowed to press ahead with the agreement’s implementation.

But officials are privately skeptical about how long it can survive, particularly if the United States imposes sanctions on European companies doing business in Iran.

And non-proliferation experts have warned that a vital window into Iran’s nuclear activities could be lost....

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They ought to be monitored jhor. Don't mind Obama

If you allow those guys, they will sell weapons to this Terrorist in Abuja which he will give to his brothers to bomb the south

A Muslim nation with nukes?
Madness.

This is like eating your cake and having your cake.

I hate racist Donald Trump.

Trump knows what he is doing and Iran is also smart by not playing the fire for fire game if not they would have fallen into Trump's hand.

Iran should continue the deal with the other countries and not play into the hands of a man who is unpredictable.

That's just my opinion please.
Thank u...

Trump is speaking tough, that is how you know a leader. I can't be paying you not to produce missiles. Produce it and I will crush you.

Randy100:
Trump is speaking tough, that is how you know a leader. I can't be paying you not to produce missiles. Produce it and I will crush you.

Nobody was paying Iran.

If Trump and his people were serious, they would have known that the "deal" was basically "We will remove economic sanctions in exchange for inspecting your nuclear sites".

Trump has broken the deal Iran should kick out those inspectors.

Donald95:
They ought to be monitored jhor. Don't mind Obama

If you allow those guys, they will sell weapons to this Terrorist in Abuja which he will give to his brothers to bomb the south

Another uninformed individual who has no clue what the deal was about.

Crocky23:
This is like eating your cake and having your cake.

I hate racist Donald Trump.

Who cares? God bless Trump

CSTR1003:
A Muslim nation with nukes?

Madness.

i can see the madness over u, but christain should be allow to own weapons of mass destruction.

AZeD1:


Nobody was paying Iran.

If Trump and his people were serious, they would have known that the "deal" was basically "We will remove economic sanctions in exchange for inspecting your nuclear sites".

Trump has broken the deal Iran should kick out those inspectors.

Gbam.