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The US president pulled no punches in his address, noting, “the Iranian promise was a lie,” in reference to the Islamic Republic’s assurances under the agreement, which he also called a “giant fiction.”
Trump: ‘US will withdraw from Iran nuclear deal’
President Donald Trump confirmed on Tuesday that the US will exit the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran.
By: World Israel News Staff
US President Donald Trump declared that the US will exit the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), an agreement under which the United States was obligated to ease crippling economic restrictions on Iran under periodic “waivers” that technically suspended sanctions.
“I am announcing today the US will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal,” Trump announced from the White House on Tuesday afternoon.
The US president pulled no punches in his address, noting, “the Iranian promise was a lie,” in reference to the Islamic Republic’s assurances under the agreement, which he also called a “giant fiction.”
Starting during his presidential campaign, Trump has threatened to extricate the US from what has referred to as the “worst deal ever negotiated.” Trump’s stated reasons were Iran’s unabated development of ballistic missiles, its role stoking bloody wars in Syria and Yemen, and the fact that Iran lied about its nuclear weapons program.
With regard to the last point, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented half a ton of evidence last week demonstrating that Iran had not only been developing nuclear weapons, but also meticulously preserved the records related to the program. Israeli intelligence services succeeded in spiriting the records out of Iran, which many saw as a smoking gun proving that Iran had lied repeatedly in the run-up to the nuclear deal’s conclusion.
The Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent Oliver Holmes sent over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to Trump’s announcement.
Netanyahu, who has been a vocal critic of the deal and called for Trump to “fix it or nix it”, said on Tuesday evening:
“Israel fully supports President Trump’s bold decision today to reject the disastrous nuclear deal with the terrorist regime in Tehran.”
He said Israel opposed the deal as it “paves Iran’s path to an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs.”
The “removal of sanctions under the deal has already produced disastrous results,” he said.
“Israel thanks President Trump for his courageous leadership,” he added.
