Breaking: Trump Pulls Plug on Iran Deal… Obama Legacy Goes up in Flames

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One of Barack Obama’s biggest claims to diplomatic success during his eight years in office was just overturned by President Donald Trump.

On Friday, the Trump administration announced that it is decertifying the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which was promoted by then-Secretary of State John Kerry but heavily criticized by conservatives.

According to Fox News, the president’s announcement does not immediately pull the United States out of the deal, but the decertification is one step closer to walking away from what Trump called “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into.”

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

In simple terms, decertifying the deal means that the United States does not officially believe that Iran is upholding its end of the bargain.

(This isn’t the first time President Trump has stood up to Iran. Watch the video below of Trump utterly roasting Iran’s leaders before the UN in September.)

“Under a law passed in 2015 to give Congress oversight of the nuclear deal, the president must tell Congress every 90 days if Iran is complying. If the president doesn’t, that triggers a 60-day process for lawmakers to weigh whether to reimpose sanctions under expedited consideration,” The Wall Street Journal explained.

The president’s announcement means that it’s now up to the Republican-controlled Congress to decide what happens next. Lawmakers can try to make adjustments to the U.S.-Iran agreement negotiated during Obama’s time in office, but there is a good chance the arrangement would end completely.

“In the event we are not able to reach a solution working with Congress and our allies, the agreement will be terminated,” Trump explained. “It is under continuous review and our participation can be canceled by me as president at any time.”

During the same announcement, Trump revealed that he would be using financial sanctions to pressure Iran’s Revolutionary Guard — a group that he called a “terror force.”

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“Execution of our strategy begins with a long overdue step of imposing tough sanctions on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” Trump said. “The revolutionary guard is the Iranian supreme leader’s corrupt personal terror force and militia.”

The Obama-era deal with Iran lifted many sanctions against the Islamic country, provided that the Persian nation reeled in its nuclear ambitions. Iran’s leaders have insisted that they’re only interested in nuclear technology for energy production, while more realistic observers believe it is eager to obtain nuclear weapons.

Critics have compared the Iran deal to a previous U.S.-North Korea agreement that was signed by President Clinton during the 1990s. That earlier deal most likely paved the way to Kim Jong Un’s current stockpile of nuclear weapons, and the dramatic problems now taking place on the Korean Peninsula.

The current situation in Asia proves that taking radical regimes at their word is a losing proposition. The current nightmare of a nuclear-armed North Korea could have been prevented if the United States had acted sooner… and now President Trump has a chance to learn from that Democrat mistake and do things properly in Iran.

We do not need Iran threatening its neighbors, Israel, and the world with nuclear weapons. Under the naive agreement laid out by Kerry and signed by Obama, that scenario could have been just around the corner.

Instead, it’s time to act like a global leader and stand up to regimes like Iran. President Trump made the right call… and the American people are more secure as a result.

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