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Originally Posted by photon
Vox has a newish podcast called Worldly which focuses more on foreign policy and world events with respect to US policies and such. The latest one talks about the Iran deal, it's pretty interesting. Sounds like it took all hands and endless convincing to get Trump to certify that Iran is complying with the terms of the nuclear deal. He didn't want to do it despite Iran not violating the deal.. probably because it was done by Obama.
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After a contentious meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson this week, President Donald Trump instructed a group of trusted White House staffers to make the potential case for withholding certification of Iran at the next 90-day review of the nuclear deal. The goal was to give Trump what he felt the State Department had failed to do: the option to declare that Tehran was not in compliance with the contentious agreement.
“The president assigned White House staffers with the task of preparing for the possibility of decertification for the 90-day review period that ends in October — a task he had previously given to Secretary Tillerson and the State Department,” a source close to the White House told Foreign Policy.
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On Tuesday, Trump relayed this new assignment to a group of White House staffers now tasked with making sure there will not be a repeat at the next 90-day review. “This is the president telling the White House that he wants to be in a place to decertify 90 days from now and it’s their job to put him there,” the source said.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/21/...te-department/
So basically ignore if Iran has actually complied with the deal and find some reason to decertify.
This seems crazy, the whole point of the Iran deal is to make it so Iran isn't able to put together a nuclear weapon on a few weeks notice (let alone start stockpiling them). That's where they were. Now they're supposedly at the point where it would take a year to put together a nuke. That seems to me like the deal is doing what it's supposed to do.
Doesn't decertifying basically put Iran back in the mode of wanting to have nukes to protect themselves from the US trying to do a regime change in Iran? Seems to me like it's creating another North Korea.
Except North Korea is among a pretty stable part of the world. I don't think anyone would call the middle east stable.
All because it was Obama who made the deal. Or who knows, maybe he's doing it to make Saudi Arabia happy.
EDIT: Not to mention the whole "let's ignore the state department" aspect.
EDIT2: Another article that goes into some detail about what not certifying actually means.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...f40_story.html