So, will Trump finally live up to his word on the terrible Iran nuke deal and pull out of it? Or will he have Rex Tillerson certify it again like he did in April? Trump says he has decided what he is going to do with, and let all of us know “soon.”
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President Trump told reporters Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York that he has “decided” on what he will do about the Iran nuclear deal, although he isn’t saying yet what that decision is.
“I have decided,” Mr. Trump, in a bilateral news conference with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, repeated three times.
Pressed by reporters for his decision, the president smiled, saying, “I’ll let you know what the decision is,” according to the White House press pool.
Mr. Trump has severely criticized the Iran deal, an agreement reached in 2015 between Iran and world powers including the U.S. to limit its nuclear capability in exchange for the lifting of some sanctions. On the campaign trail, Mr. Trump promised to “fix” and renegotiate or renounce the deal. But in July, his administration reluctantly certified to Congress that Iran was still in compliance with the deal, as the White House is required to do every six months.
On Tuesday, in his speech before scores of world leaders at the U.N.G.A., Mr. Trump had severe words for Iran and the nuclear agreement, calling it, “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the U.S. has ever entered” and an “embarrassment to the U.S.”