Trump Announces U.S. Withdrawal From Iran Nuclear Deal
President Donald Trump officially announced this afternoon that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.
The news was expected after earlier reporting that the President informed French President Emmanuel Macron of the decision.
“The Iranian regime is the leading state sponsor of terror,” Trump began today. “No action taken by the regime has been more dangerous than it’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them.”
“In theory,” he continued, “the so-called Iran deal was supposed to protect the United States and our allies from the lunacy of an Iranian nuclear bomb, a weapon that will only endanger the survival of the Iranian regime. In fact, the deal allowed Iran to continue enriching uranium and over time reach the brink of a nuclear blackout.”
He criticized the Obama administration over the “disastrous deal” before saying, “Today, we have definitive proof that this Iranian promise was a lie.”
“The fact is,” he said, “this was a horrible, one-sided deal that should have never ever been made. It didn’t by calm, it didn’t bring peace and it never will.”
And then he made the big announcement:
“It is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement. The Iran deal is defective at its core. If we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen… I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.”
“When I make promises,” the President added, “I keep them.”
He even sent a message to the people of Iran and said the future of their nation belongs to them.
During his presidential campaign, Trump called the deal “terrible” and “horribly negotiated.” During his state visit, Macron publicly urged the U.S. to not withdraw from the deal, and there’s been reporting that Macron, Angela Merkel, and Theresa May were on a phone call earlier this afternoon discussing the President’s announcement.
At one point during the President’s address on Iran, he took a moment to reveal that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is en route to North Korea.
Watch above, via Fox Business Network.
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