“GREAT VICTORY”
Iran insisted the deal represented a US “failure”.
“People will see it and judge,” Ghalibaf said on state television late on Wednesday, after the text was released by both sides.
Highlighting the global impact of any deal, China said on Wednesday that its top diplomat had impressed on Tehran that it was “key” for all sides to “genuinely implement” their commitments.
But Trump’s decision to pull the plug on the war, in which 13 US service members were killed and vast amounts of US ammunition stockpiles were used up, has unsettled some of his own allies at home.
The agreement is only a temporary arrangement meant to give time for starting detailed negotiations on the far more complex issue of longterm control over Iran’s nuclear power ambitions, which Washington has long suspected of harbouring a secret bomb-making programme.
Trump said earlier on Wednesday that he was prepared to “bomb the hell” out of Iran if they violated the agreement.
But US Senator Bill Cassidy from Trump’s own Republican Party was scathing.
“Iran’s nuclear ambitions were not curbed, and they have learned that threatening the Strait of Hormuz works,” he said. “Sanctions will be lifted, and the bombing has stopped. This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.”
The head of the pro-Tehran Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, Naim Qassem, on Wednesday described the deal as a “great victory” for Iran.
He thanked Tehran for insisting that the truce cover Lebanon, which was drawn into the conflict when Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on Mar 2 in support of Iran.
