Trump: ‘We Will Not and Cannot’ Recertify the Iran Nuclear Deal

Monica Sanchez | October 13, 2017
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Trump remarks on Iran nuclear deal

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President Trump at the White House on Friday announced that he “will not and cannot” re-certify the Iran nuclear deal.

“By its own terms, the Iran deal was supposed to contribute to regional and international peace and security, and yet while the United States adheres to our commitment … the Iranian regime continues to fuel conflict and terror and turmoil throughout the Middle East and beyond. Importantly Iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal,” said Trump.

“I am announcing today that we cannot and will not make this certification,” he continued. “We will not continue down the path whose predictable conclusion is more violence, more terror, and the very real threat of Iran’s nuclear program.”

Trump said that it is now up to Congress to decide the path forward. 

Congress has already begun the work to address “the deal’s many serious flaws,” Trump said, including the need to “strengthen enforcement, prevent Iran from creating an intercontinental ballistic missile, and make all restrictions on Iran’s nuclear activity permanent under U.S. law.”

“So important,” he said. “I support these initiatives. However, in the event that we are not able to reach a solution working with Congress and our allies, then the agreement will be terminated.”

Congress has 60 days to come up with a solution. 

Trump went on to say that the deal is “under continuous review” and that “our participation can be cancelled by me as President at any time.”

He again called the Iran nuclear deal “one of the worst and one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into.”

“We got weak inspections in exchange for no more than a purely short-term and temporary delay in Iran’s path to nuclear weapons,” said Trump. “What is the purpose of a deal that at best only delays Iran’s capability for a short period of time?”

He said that his administration’s new policy toward Iran – including tough sanctions on the Iran Revolutionary Guard, sanctions on the regime’s intercontinental missile program, and cooperation with allies “to counter the regime’s destabilizing activity” – will work to ensure that Iran “never – and I mean never – acquires a nuclear weapon.”

“We should not take likely its sinister vision for the future,” Trump warned. “The regime’s two chants are ‘death to America’ and ‘death to Israel.’”

He said that the Iran nuclear deal only served to give Iran’s “rogue regime” much-needed relief and “an immediate financial boost,” which was used to finance terrorism.

“I wonder where all that money went,” Trump said.  

He added that Iran had committed multiple violations of the agreement, including intimidating U.S. inspectors from using their full authorities.

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