Iran warned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday against trusting U.S. President Donald Trump, saying he could cancel their denuclearisation agreement within hours.
Tehran cited its own experience in offering the advice to Kim a month after Washington withdrew from a similar deal with Iran.
Trump and Kim pledged at a meeting in Singapore on Tuesday to work towards complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula while Washington committed to providing security guarantees for its old enemy.
"We don't know what type of person the North Korean leader is negotiating with. It is not clear that he would not cancel the agreement before returning home," Iranian government spokesman Mohammad Bagher Nobakht was quoted as saying by the Islamic Republic News Agency.
Nobakht questioned Trump's credibility. "This man does not represent the American people, and they will surely distance themselves from him at the next elections," he said.
Trump, who pulled the U.S. from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran on May 8, has said would be open to striking a new nuclear accord with Tehran. However, he says the existing deal negotiated under his predecessor Barack Obama had failed to address Iran's ballistic missile program.
He also cited the terms under which international inspectors can visit suspect Iranian nuclear sites and "sunset" clauses, under which limits on the nuclear program start to expire after 10 years.
Trump has insisted any deal with North Korea should include irreversible and verifiable denuclearization.
Iran expressed similar reservations about the Trump-Kim summit on Monday, advising Kim to beware of Trump as his credibility is "questionable."
"We want peace, stability and security to be established on the Korean Peninsula like other places in the world and we welcome any step which helps this process and the economic development and prosperity of the region," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said.
"However, given what we know from the U.S. track record and its history of behavior and relationship, especially from Mr. Trump, who in his presidency has taken steps based on sabotage, existing agreements and breaching obligations, especially with regard to the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action], we do not have an optimistic outlook toward this issue," he said.
"We believe that the Korean government should deal with this issue very carefully because the nature of the American regime is not something to be optimistic about. We support peace and security that is in the interests of the peninsula, but we look at American behavior with pessimism," he cautioned, according to Iran's Press TV website.
