Tehran 0
28 February 2019

Qods force commander Soleimani argued that "from the very beginning the enemy saw the JCPOA as a three-pronged objective, not just one, and the other two were more important than the first". "Obama wanted to reach the other two goals slowly", Soleimani suggested, "but Trump wants to traverse this road quickly and this road will lead to JCPOA 3". 

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