Trump punts the Iran deal to Congress
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President Trump has made it official: He will not recertify the nuclear deal with Iran that was negotiated under President Obama. The deal relaxed international sanctions on Iran in exchange for the country limiting its nuclear program. [NYT / Mark Landler and David Sanger]
By doing this, Trump isn’t technically ending the agreement between the US and Iran. Instead, he’s shifting the decision to Congress, which is controlled by Republicans who are very open about how much they despise the deal. [Vox / Zack Beauchamp]
If Congress decides to put sanctions back on Iran that were lifted by the deal, it could unravel the whole thing. The president also said that if Congress fails to create new legislation to deal with Iran, he will end the deal. [Associated Press]
House Speaker Paul Ryan quickly backed up Trump's decision, saying the US shouldn’t continue to enforce a “fatally flawed” agreement. [Associated Press]
Trump has accused Iran of violating the terms of the deal, which contradicts his own government, European officials, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. [CNN / Stephen Collinson, Kevin Liptak, and Dan Merica]
Iran has been conducting a number of ballistic missile tests lately. While the US and the international community agree that’s trouble, those tests technically are not prohibited under the terms of the agreement. [NPR / Greg Myre]
Trump has not given many policy reasons for scrapping the deal; he’s just repeatedly called it bad. His own Cabinet members have reportedly urged him to stick with it, because backing out could potentially be much worse for the US than for Iran. [Vox / Zack Beauchamp]
European officials have reiterated that they are still in the deal, no matter what America does. French President Emmanuel Macron has previously said he feared that if the deal were discarded, Iran would have no incentive to stop its nuclear program and could turn into another North Korea–style threat. [Politico EU / Maia De La Baume, Jacopo Barigazzi, and David Herszenhorn]
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Saeed Shah/MCT via Getty Images
President Trump has made it official: He will not recertify the nuclear deal with Iran that was negotiated under President Obama. The deal relaxed international sanctions on Iran in exchange for the country limiting its nuclear program. [NYT / Mark Landler and David Sanger]
By doing this, Trump isn’t technically ending the agreement between the US and Iran. Instead, he’s shifting the decision to Congress, which is controlled by Republicans who are very open about how much they despise the deal. [Vox / Zack Beauchamp]
If Congress decides to put sanctions back on Iran that were lifted by the deal, it could unravel the whole thing. The president also said that if Congress fails to create new legislation to deal with Iran, he will end the deal. [Associated Press]
House Speaker Paul Ryan quickly backed up Trump's decision, saying the US shouldn’t continue to enforce a “fatally flawed” agreement. [Associated Press]
Trump has accused Iran of violating the terms of the deal, which contradicts his own government, European officials, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. [CNN / Stephen Collinson, Kevin Liptak, and Dan Merica]
Iran has been conducting a number of ballistic missile tests lately. While the US and the international community agree that’s trouble, those tests technically are not prohibited under the terms of the agreement. [NPR / Greg Myre]
Trump has not given many policy reasons for scrapping the deal; he’s just repeatedly called it bad. His own Cabinet members have reportedly urged him to stick with it, because backing out could potentially be much worse for the US than for Iran. [Vox / Zack Beauchamp]
European officials have reiterated that they are still in the deal, no matter what America does. French President Emmanuel Macron has previously said he feared that if the deal were discarded, Iran would have no incentive to stop its nuclear program and could turn into another North Korea–style threat. [Politico EU / Maia De La Baume, Jacopo Barigazzi, and David Herszenhorn]
www.fotavgeia.blogspot.com
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