The Trump who said that this was a disastrous deal that should be dismantled was more correct than this McMastered Trump. Get the full, horrifying details of exactly how bad this deal is, and of Iran’s global jihad adventurism, in my book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran.
“Trump Keeps Iran Deal, Refuses to Certify Compliance to Congress,” by Ian Mason, Breitbart, October 13, 2017 (thanks to Ken):
President Donald Trump will not re-certify to Congress Iranian compliance with the landmark nuclear deal signed in 2015 under President Barack Obama, but will keep the agreement itself in place.
Congress will be urged to pass new “trigger points” to hold the Iranians to account and the Treasury Department will be directed to place additional sanctions on the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a wing of the Iranian military accused of terrorist acts in support of the Iranian regime throughout the region.
“The President has come to the conclusion that he cannot certify … that the sanctions relief we provided [Iran] is proportionate to the benefit we are seeing,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on a Thursday evening press conference call where he and National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster laid out the broad strokes of what a White House fact sheet referred to as “President Donald J. Trump‘s New Strategy on Iran.”
The plan, according to McMaster, was the product of “months of an inter-agency process.”
The administration will not certify to Congress Iran’s compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iran nuclear deal, or that the sanctions relief given under the deal is providing proportionate benefits to the United States.
It is required to do so every 90 days under a law called the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA), passed nearly unanimously by Congress in the furor that surrounded President Obama reaching the agreement with the Iranians largely without consulting the Republican-controlled Senate. Although there has been no showing that the Iranian government has violated the terms of the JCPOA, Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Hailey said last month that the president “has grounds to stand on” in refusing to certify compliance should he choose to do so.
Reporting Wednesday indicated the administration has suffered serious internal tension over whether to certify under INARA since July, when the pro-certification elements of President Trump’s national security team won out before the last certification deadline. Last week, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, the former White House advisor and Breitbart News national security editor, who was present at those negotiations, told Breitbart News, “I can tell you one thing: I was in the Oval the day it was recertified last. It was the president behind the Resolute Desk. It was Steve [Bannon] and myself on the side of the president. It was H.R. McMaster, Rex Tillerson, [Steven] Mnuchin who were saying we have to recertify.”
Gorka believed it was unlikely the president would approve of another round of IRANA certification, a prediction borne out in Tillerson’s pronouncements. On Wednesday, Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney told Breitbart News Daily that he considered decertification without withdrawal, the strategem on which the administration has now settled, to “be a bait-and-switch.”
Tillerson called the JCPOA, against which Trump ran extensively during his campaign for the presidency, was “only one piece of what concerns us in our relationship with Iran.”…
Krazy Kafir says
I can’t believe that Trump chose, General McDhimmi. Its all been so disappointing.
Walter Sieruk says
First, it’s naive to the degree of delusion and folly to think or feel that the tyranny in power in this “mullah regime” would keep their word in any “agreement deal” they made with the USA and other Westerns nations. Those disingenuous and outright lying mullahs and ayatollahs as well as other Muslim liars in power in Iran can’t be trusted at all, in any way.
Second, those mullahs and ayatollahs in Iran with their falsehoods and deceptions of the many false doctrines of Islam in which they brainwash the Iranian people in believing is something that is both sad and tragic. Those ayatollahs and mullahs are, no doubt, just as deluded as the people who they thoroughly indoctrinate with false teachings of Islam. Of such demonic deception by false teachers who are also deluded such men a have been predicted in the Bible. For in the Bible it’s written that “Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived.” Second Timothy 3:13. [K.J.V.] All those mullahs and ayatollahs are, according to the doctrines of the Bible, Isaiah 8:20. false religious teachers .Meaning false teachers who teach and indoctrinate the false doctrines of the false religion of Islam into the hearts and minds of others . Such false teachers are described in the Bible ,in Second Peter 2:1. “There were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”
Therefore, to reply to the many different claims made by the imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam there is the Christian internet site. It’s http://www.answering-islam.org
In addition, it should be make clear that in the context and meaning of the above Bible verse Second Peter 2:1. The word “destruction” does not mean “loss of being but loss of well-being ,as the destruction of well- being . That is “going to ruin” by ending up and a terrible place of awful suffering which the Bible call hell, Luke 16:19-31.
rubiconcrest says
Smart move because it put the onus on congress to act and takes pressure off the president.
Lorensacho says
It may be that Trump will have placed pressure on Iran to become more peaceable, but he decertified the nuclear deal not because Iran wasn’t living up to its conditions, it was, and Trump acknowledged it was, but because Trump accused Iran of not living up to the spirit of the deal. What is the spirit of the deal? Does anyone know? Is this the new criteria by which anyone can break any treaty? I’m afraid that well meaning Trump just injected a lot of instability into our already unstable world. What Trump should have done was to place sanctions on Iran for its terrorist activities not for breaking its nuclear deal which he neglected to remember was a treaty between many nations including Russia and China.
gravenimage says
The idea that it is the “filthy Infidels” breaking treaties with Muslims is ridiculous.
This deal was supposed by credulous Kuffar to prevent Iran from gaining nukes, but Iran has been crowing ever since about how this deal has actually enabled them to get nukes and to threaten Israel and the US.
Pretending that this has not happened is ridiculous.
Lorensacho says
That was pretty cowardly on behalf of Trump to punt the ball to Congress which he loathes. The President has the power to break any treaty he wants.