Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and the military adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told NBC News on Monday that his country should never have signed the 2015 nuclear deal that has now been renounced by US President Donald Trump.
Shamkhani, who rarely speaks to the Western press, told the US network that there were people in Iran who felt that signing the 2015 nuclear pact, known as the JCPOA, was a mistake.