President Barack Obama yesterday that the sanctions imposed on Tehran over its nuclear program has created the controversial "disorders" in the economy of the country, in this context, Japan said today that its imports of Iranian crude oil in the fall.
The president said "We have succeeded in mobilizing countries such as China and Russia, which have remained outside ever before," to such sanctions, which he described as "unprecedented."
He added that the matter of that, "we say unequivocally that we will not tolerate nuclear weapons in the hands of the Iranian regime."
Obama defended his administration's policy in this file in a meeting devoted to raise money in New York for the presidential election on 6 October / November next, and which will run for a second term of four years.
He said Obama should these sanctions, "was very effective to the extent that the Iranians themselves admitted that they have created the imbalance in the economy."
"When he came to power, Iran was unified and divided world. Today, there is an international community united to say that Iran should change its position."
But Obama acknowledged that Iran has not yet decided to open its nuclear program to international scrutiny in a way that would help them out of isolation.
Obama's speech came hours after the agreement of the European Union to punish Iran's central bank and the freezing of assets used to fund its nuclear program, in another step, and to punish and isolate the Islamic state.
JapanIn this regard, the trade minister said Yukio Aidanu today he told visiting U.S. officials that Japan's imports of Iranian crude oil is falling and it will continue in a downward direction.
He Aidanu he told them that Japan purchases of Iranian oil fell by 40% over the past five years and that this downward trend will continue.
For his part, President of the Petroleum Association of Japan said on Thursday that it is likely that the declining oil industry, Japanese purchases of Iranian crude within three months.
Officials from the Treasury and Foreign Americas meetings with Japanese officials in Tokyo this week to explain the U.S. law imposing sanctions on countries doing business with Iran as a means to limit the ability of the Islamic Republic to make a nuclear bomb.
The U.S. President signed a law includes a new set of U.S. sanctions last month, targeting Iran's oil sector and seeks to make foreign companies choose between dealing with Tehran, or the United States.
Source: DBA + French
