Trump to Let Congress Decide Fate of Iran Deal, Like Everything Else: Report
By Margaret Hartmann
@MargHartmann
September 21, 2017
3:35 am
President Trump teased reporters on the fate of the Iran nuclear deal on Wednesday morning, repeatedly telling them, “I have decided,” but refusing to say what his call actually is.
Now four sources, including a senior administration official, are trying to spoil his big season-finale reveal. They tell NBC News that he’s leaning toward decertifying the deal before the next compliance deadline on October 15. Rather than immediately ending the agreement, that would kick the decision to Congress, which would then have 60 days to decide whether to reimpose the sanctions that were lifted as part of the 2015 agreement.
During that time, Trump would try to get the nations that negotiated the deal — Britain, China, France, Germany, and Russia — to renegotiate some of its provisions with Iran. The other nations seem to agree with international inspectors, who say Iran is complying with the terms of the agreement.
French president Emmanuel Macron said that during his meetings with Trump on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly this week, he urged him not to scrap the deal just because it’s an Obama policy. “What else do we have? We would be put in the North Korea situation,” he said.
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