Posted on 10/12/2017 3:16:48 PM PDT by KingofZion
President Donald Trump is expected to announce Friday that he won’t certify that Iran is complying with the 2015 international nuclear agreement and will take Tehran to task more broadly for practices ranging from missile tests to support of violent groups, U.S. officials said.
The refusal to certify Iran’s compliance doesn’t mean the U.S. will pull out of the deal, the officials added, and Mr. Trump isn’t expected to ask Congress to re-impose economic sanctions that had been lifted as part of the agreement. But it could send the U.S. down a road of trying to change a deal that U.S. allies still support.
Mr. Trump, a longtime opponent of the agreement negotiated under his predecessor’s administration, is expected to announce his decision in a speech in which he will also lay out plans to crack down on Iran’s missile program as well as its support for Hezbollah and other militant groups in the Middle East, the officials said.
Mr. Trump also is likely to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s elite military branch, as a terrorist organization, although that step has been the subject of internal administration debates, according to people familiar with the deliberations.
The venue for Mr. Trump’s remarks also has been the subject of discussions. Officials said they had discussed the possibility of the speech taking place in front of the unoccupied Iranian embassy building in Washington, although that plan was set aside.
Mr. Trump’s speech will mark the end of a months-long Iran policy review by the administration and begin an uncertain process under which Congress has a 60-day period during which it may consider on an expedited basis reinstating sanctions that had been lifted under the terms of the nuclear accord. ***
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Seeing will be believing. With this administration, I never know what is a trial balloon and what is an actual preview of a decision until after the fact.
As his advisors have mixed opinions; a plan might be to send the Iran deal to Congress to approve or disapprove. With the Senate’s “slow walking” everything he wants, it will never pass in time.
He did the same with the Dreamers and it’s at the bottom of the “to do” basket of work, never to see the light of day IMO.
It sure is a bear to do things right and proper for the country!
Count those who are anti...
Just... Thank You, President Trump! for doing the right thing... one after another... in the face of all the opposition! You sure did open up that swamp for all to see.
The sides lined up like this:
The countries that HATE Israel LOVED the ‘agreement’.
Israel, the one country that was supposed to be protected by the ‘agreement’ HATED the deal.
That was all I needed to know.
Next step: MOAB
Iran’s vile “Revolutionary Guard” should have been designated as a terrorist group many many years ago. Clinton, Bush, and Obama were so soft (and worse) about them. No one associated with the IRG should ever be allowed access to international travel, financial institutions, etc. They must all be treated as the terrorists they are.
Iran’s vile “Revolutionary Guard” should have been designated as a terrorist group many many years ago. Clinton, Bush, and Obama were so soft (and worse) about them. No one associated with the IRG should ever be allowed access to international travel, financial institutions, etc. They must all be treated as the terrorists they are.
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