The following article by Eric Lutz was posted on the mic.com website October 13, 2017:
President Donald Trump on Friday decertified the Iran nuclear deal, calling on Congress to address the “many serious flaws” of the landmark agreement or else he will end it.
“We cannot and will not make this certification,” Trump said from the White House Friday. “We will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence, more terror and the very real threat of Iran’s nuclear breakout.”
It was a sternly worded announcement, delivered by Trump through gritted teeth, that characterized the Obama-era deal as a “political and economic lifeline” for Iran — which he claimed, contrary to what his own secretary of state said a day earlier, was not fulfilling the terms of the accord. Continue reading “Trump decertifying the nuclear deal isn’t putting pressure on Iran. It’s isolating the US.”