In the words of Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi, unilateralism on the part of the White House and its disrespect for multilateral agreements are ongoing.
It has already abandoned the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or the Iranian nuclear deal, and now an agreement designed to reduce the risk of miscalculations that could lead to war, he said.
This is the third arms control agreement from which the Trump government is withdrawing, the second was the abandonment of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
For Mousavi, those US-made decisions are part of their practice of violating obligations.
The US insistence on addressing alleged threats from Russia and China will create conditions for another arms race and global instability, analysts estimate.
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