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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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From: Sun Tzu10/8/2017 4:26:32 PM
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Trump has excoriated the Obama administration for agreeing to the multilateral pact, which he deemed “an embarrassment” during a speech before the United Nations General Assembly last month. That is not a position that is supported by his national security team: last week, Mattis told a senate panel that the Iran deal was important for American national security, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph F. Dunford Jr. reiterated that he believed Iran was in compliance with the deal’s terms.Six Democratic senators had a meeting with national security adviser H.R. McMaster to discuss Iran this week and came away with the impression that he agreed with Mattis and Dunford.

Still, Trump has been adamant that he wants to discredit the deal, which is why the White House, State Department and Corker have been working together to carefully plan how the president can refuse to certify the deal without wholly extricating the United States from it.

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