October 16, 2017 SnyderTalk: Trump threatens to scrap Iran deal if Congress and US allies can’t fix it

“I am Yahweh; that is My Name!  I will not give My glory to anyone else, nor share My praise with carved idols.” (Isaiah 42: 8)

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The Times of Israel—Trump threatens to scrap Iran deal if Congress and US allies can’t fix it:

US President Donald Trump announced Friday that he would not recertify the Iranian nuclear deal, while not withdrawing from the pact, and outlined a new, tougher approach toward Tehran.

Trump said he was launching a tougher strategy to check Iran’s “fanatical regime” and warned that 2015’s landmark international nuclear deal could be terminated at any time.

In a much-anticipated White House speech, Trump stopped short of withdrawing from the accord, but “decertified” his support for the agreement and left its fate in the hands of Congress.

“We cannot and will not make this certification,” he said. “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.”

And, outlining the results of a review of efforts to counter Tehran’s “aggression” in a series of Middle East conflicts, Trump ordered tougher sanctions on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps and on its ballistic missile program.

Trump said the agreement, which defenders say was only ever meant to curtail Iran’s nuclear program in return for sanctions relief, had failed to address Iranian subversion in its region and its illegal missile program.

The US president said he supports efforts in Congress to work on new measures to address these threats without immediately torpedoing the broader deal.

“However, in the event we are not able to reach a solution working with Congress and our allies, then the agreement will be terminated,” Trump said, in a televised address from the Diplomatic Room of the White House. “It is under continuous review and our participation can be canceled by me as president at any time,” he warned.

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SnyderTalk Comment:

Regular SnyderTalk readers will recall the discussion about the Iran nuclear deal while it was being negotiated.  Much of it centered on the Senate’s desire to be a part of it in which case it would have been a treaty, not a deal.

Senate leaders from both parties demanded that Obama bring it to them for ratification.  Realizing that he couldn’t garner enough votes for passage in the Senate, Obama decided to opt for a deal, not a treaty.

Treaties are binding on the United States, but a deal is binding on the person who agreed to it. (See “Iran deal: A treaty or not a treaty, that is the question”.)

Obama is no longer president.  Since he made the Iran nuclear deal (not treaty), President Trump can abrogate it with the stroke of a pen without any input from the Senate.

Last week, President Trump gave the Senate what senators from both parties demanded in 2015.

This little twist of irony is lost on most of our citizens.  President Trump is exposing the hypocrisy of U.S. senators.

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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)

See “His Name is Yahweh”.

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