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Trump decertifies Iran nuclear deal, announces new sanctions
The Washington Times ^ | October 13, 2017 | Dave Boyer

Posted on 10/13/2017 10:25:47 AM PDT by jazusamo

President Trump said Friday he’s decertifying the Iranian nuclear deal forged under the Obama administration, but stopped short of ending the international agreement, instead giving Congress 60 days to take a tougher approach toward Tehran’s lawless behavior.

“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,” Mr. Trump said. “Iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal.”

In an address from the White House, the president also said he’s directing the Treasury Department to sanction Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps over its support of terrorism in the Middle East, calling it a “long overdue step.”

“History has shown the longer we ignore a threat, the more dangerous that threat becomes,” the president said.

Mr. Trump, who has called the 2015 agreement signed by President Obama a “horrible” deal and threatened to rip it up, instead decided reluctantly to try to beef up the restrictions on Tehran by going to Congress.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; iraniannukes; nucleardeal; third100days; trump; trumpgwot; trumpmiddleeast
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To: SMARTY

Not by Congress.

I believe President Trump is sending that message to Congress and Iran.


61 posted on 10/13/2017 11:39:56 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: Dapper 26

The Iran Deal should have been submitted to the Senate as a treaty requiring two-thirds approval. Instead, thanks to Corker and the rest of the GOPe, it was submitted as an agreement to the Senate requiring two-thirds to reject it. Obama turned the approval process on its head and the Reps helped him do it.


62 posted on 10/13/2017 11:40:56 AM PDT by kabar
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To: rainee
Paris, UNESCO, Immigration, Obummercare, & now this!

I have been racking the Trump WINS

Noticed a growing intensity in both significance and frequency of the WINS

My theory is that Trump is using the Cloward-Piven strategy in reverse

That is the rate of WINS and the diverse nature of the WINS overwhelms the opposition

Before they have their focus groups...Delphi sessions...assessments....polling etc ...Trump hits them with another

Take the DACA for example...Pelosi and Schumer heard what they wanted to hear.

Trump then comes out with what he wants.

63 posted on 10/13/2017 11:42:25 AM PDT by spokeshave (The Fake Media tried to stop us from going to the White House, I am President and they are not. DJT)
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To: lodi90

so then what improvement was/will be made if any?!


64 posted on 10/13/2017 11:43:12 AM PDT by GoldenState_Rose
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To: lodi90
Congress needs to reimpose sanctions Obama lifted. But that won’t happen because Boeing and their big donors want to do business with Iran.

Sort of like Obamacare. The Reps all voted against the Iran Deal when they knew it didn't count. Now they must go on the record as to whether the deal should be kept in place or not and that the sanctions should be restored. I suspect you are correct. There will be a number of Reps who will want to keep the Deal as it is.

65 posted on 10/13/2017 11:44:05 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

so what can we say was accomplished today? what Obamacare-type maneuver can Trump do if Congress doesn’t do anything?


66 posted on 10/13/2017 11:46:15 AM PDT by GoldenState_Rose
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To: miss marmelstein

Thank you! It didn’t seem like you... but just reading words without tone of voice can be misleading, especially to people (ahem...myself) who may have a touch of aspergers....(sp?).

Apologies!


67 posted on 10/13/2017 11:48:07 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: spokeshave

In for a penny, in for a pound. If we’re gonna use some nukes, might as well do it in stereo.


68 posted on 10/13/2017 11:49:40 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: spokeshave

>My theory is that Trump is using the Cloward-Piven strategy in reverse<

Ha!

I hope so. America will be great again and in sbort order.

He out alinskied all of them, that’s for sure.

I’ve waited for years for someone to destroy the with their own M.O.


69 posted on 10/13/2017 11:51:03 AM PDT by Califreak (All Alinsky All The Time)
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To: tumblindice
He has a lefty daughter and son-in-law!

He does.

But as long as he keeps on ignoring their idiocy, I'll do the same.

70 posted on 10/13/2017 11:51:37 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: weston

I read him daily. I think he’s wrong about Paddock, though. It’s not cut and dried at all, and IMHO he was doing a sting operation for feebs and got offed by the actual shooters.

His understanding of what’s going on in the Middle East is better than anything else on the internet. And how President Trump is doing things.

Did you see his threads on McMaster? And to think I used to read Cernobitch and Posobiec - gag - they sure revealed themselves.


71 posted on 10/13/2017 11:52:06 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: jazusamo

Winning.


72 posted on 10/13/2017 11:52:28 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Mariner; P-Marlowe

Unless it’s a legal, constitutional treaty I don’t want them to act. Corker used the weasel word “deal” to describe an agreement among many nations to which the US became beholden. That’s a treaty, and it requires 2/3 approval by the constitution. He can call it a bargain, a deal, an agreement, an understanding, or any other synonym they want, but such a signatory document is a treaty by constitutional standards, and I resent Corker and Obama ignoring law to enable Obama to transfer 150 billion to his islamo-fascist friends in iran, and to stick us with Iran in a few short years becoming a nuclear threat to us and israel


73 posted on 10/13/2017 12:00:26 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: GoldenState_Rose; miss marmelstein

I agree and also have no clue what handing the Iran deal to Congress is about. I have a lot of limitations in understanding the machinery of DC stuff. Interesting about Bannon and Weinstein, he’s an intelligent man but not really suited for gov. work, imho.

I watched Gen. Kelly’s press conference and it was great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3shoZkktNgQ

10/12/17: White House Press Briefing

Run time 31 minutes, General Kelly comes on a bit after 1 minute.


74 posted on 10/13/2017 12:02:01 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: beergarden

“...Trump makes the decisions...”

True! In my own life, my husband will listen to the opinions and input of our adult daughters and their husbands; however, he will always make his own decision in the end. I have no doubt that President Trump operates in a similar manner and makes his own decisions.


75 posted on 10/13/2017 12:02:20 PM PDT by stonehouse01
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To: Enlightened1

BRAVO Mr. PRESIDENT!!!!!!


76 posted on 10/13/2017 12:05:26 PM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: GoldenState_Rose
Trump said that if Congress does nothing, then he will abrogate the deal. Obama unilaterally got us into it without going thru the treaty process. Trump holds all the cards.
77 posted on 10/13/2017 12:05:30 PM PDT by kabar
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To: beergarden

I figure when he sees JIvanka, he sees children. He doesn’t do what children tell him to do.


78 posted on 10/13/2017 12:24:50 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: VanDeKoik

“And Bannon isn’t there to tell him what to say!!!!!!!!!”


Ain’t that the truth.

Before the President had even spoken, the drama queens over at Breitbart had a flashing RED headline, saying something like, “President Keeps Iran Deal.”

Total BS and misleading.

While I greatly appreciate Steve Bannon’s passionate determination to rid our government of liberalism in all of its ugly forms, and his war to oust the traitorous never-Trumpers in Congress, I am fed up with his paranoia every time President Trump makes a decision and his being so quick (via Breitbart) to suggest that Trump is going back on his promises.

He’s like a cult leader over at Breitbart News and everything he says is gospel.

Well, this is the same man that told 60 Minutes that the President’s biggest political mistake was firing the disgraced, former FBI director, James Comey. So obviously, he’s not always right.

It’s stunning how much this President is accomplishing with such little support from Congress.

This week has been a great week for him and for our country.

From decertifying the Iran deal and pulling out of ONESCO, our President has accomplished more in the Middle East than most presidents to in years.


79 posted on 10/13/2017 12:39:39 PM PDT by Southnsoul
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To: jazusamo

What a gambit. He’s gonna force these idiots in the Senate to defend their vote on Iran. I can’t see how Trump loses this one.


80 posted on 10/13/2017 12:41:35 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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