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Trump To Decertify Iran Nuclear Deal
Topic Started: Oct 13 2017, 01:01 PM (31 Views)
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Global News: Donald Trump expected to rebuke Iran nuclear deal, but not scrap it

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President Donald Trump is expected to say Friday that the Iran nuclear deal is no longer in U.S. national security interests, but he won’t withdraw from the landmark 2015 accord or immediately re-impose sanctions against Tehran, according to U.S. officials and outside advisers to the administration.

Trump’s speech from the White House will outline specific faults he finds in the pact but will also focus on an array of Iran’s troubling non-nuclear activities, four officials and advisers said. Those include Tehran’s ballistic missile program, support for Syrian President Bashar Assad, Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement and other groups that destabilize the region, including in Yemen.

Under U.S. law, Trump faces a Sunday deadline to notify Congress whether Iran is complying with the accord that was negotiated over 18 months by the Obama administration and determine if it remains a national security priority.

Although Trump will allow that Iran is living up to the letter of the agreement, he will make the case that the deal is fatally flawed and that its non-nuclear behaviour violates the spirit of the regional stability it was intended to encourage, the officials and advisers said.

The officials and advisers, who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly preview the speech, said Trump will not call for a re-imposition of nuclear sanctions on Tehran.

He will instead urge lawmakers to codify tough new requirements for Tehran to continue to benefit from the sanctions relief that it won in exchange for curbing its atomic program. And he’ll announce his long-anticipated intent to impose sanctions on portions of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps by designating them terrorist organization under an existing executive order, according to the officials and advisers.

“The reckless behavior of the Iranian regime, and the IRGC in particular, poses one of the most dangerous threats to the interests of the United States and to regional stability,” the White House said in a statement released ahead of the speech. The statement, which did not reveal Trump’s decision, denounced the Obama administration for its “myopic focus on Iran’s nuclear program to the exclusion of the regime’s many other malign activities” and said the same “mistakes” would not be repeated.

“The Trump administration’s Iran policy will address the totality of these threats from and malign activities by the Government of Iran and will seek to bring about a change in the Iranian’s regime’s behavior,” it said.
-Read more: https://globalnews.ca/news/3801187/donald-trump-iran-nuclear-deal-u-s/
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--Trump said "Arabian Gulf" instead of US Gov recognized term Persian Gulf. This is meant to be a deliberate slight to Iran and gift to Saudi (Trita Parsi, National Iranian-American Council - 13 Oct. 2017)

--@potus speaks now about US new #Iran strategy, which will constrain Iranian aggression while remaining in the #IranNuclearDeal @StateDept (Heather Nauert, State Dept. Spokeperson - 13 Oct. 2017)
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--Breaking: US declares Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps terrorist group. (Jim Sciutto, CNN - 13 Oct. 2017)
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--While Trump claims Iran has violated #Irandeal, remember: The IAEA has now 8 times in a row CERTIFIED iran to be IN COMPLIANCE. Trump lies. (Trita Parsi, National Iranian-American Council - 13 Oct. 2017)

--If Trump decertifies #IranDeal, Congress may then try somehow to “fix” deal or otherwise set policy. This is a lost cause. Must withdraw. (Amb. John Bolton, Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. - 13 Oct. 2017)
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--Rep Cicilline on @POTUS @realDonaldTrump decertifying the Iranian nuclear deal. (Rep. David N. Ciciline, D-RI - 13 Oct. 2017)
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Quoting the Sky News Newsdesk...

(1) Kremlin spokesman: if U.S. quits
Iran nuclear deal it will harm predictability, security, stability and non-proliferation around the world
(2) EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says no single country is able to terminate the 2015 Iran nuclear deal
(3) Theresa May, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel have issued a joint statement saying they "stand committed" to the Iran nuclear deal
(4) Iranian President: President Trump's speech was full of baseless accusations against Iran & the nuclear deal can't be revoked by one country
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--It's all hands on deck standing up to President Trumps's dangerous decision on Iran. Here's my statement. (John Kerry, Fmr. U.S. Secretary of State - 13 Oct. 2017)
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