President Donald Trump announced that the United States withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal. The agreement between Iran and six world powers lifted sanctions that crippled Iran's economy in return for tight limits on the Islamic Republic's nuclear energy program. Trump said the current deal allows Iran to continue to enrich uranium and gave the regime billions of dollars.
“The so-called Iran deal was supposed to protect the United States and our allies from the lunacy of an Iranian nuclear bomb, a weapon that will only endanger the survival of the Iranian regime. In fact, the deal allowed Iran to continue enriching uranium and over time reach the brink of a nuclear blackout.”
Trump cited intelligence documents released by Israel that "conclusively" show that Iran has "history of pursuing nuclear weapons."
Trump attacked the Obama administration, which negotiated the deal in 2015, calling the it "a great embarrassment to me as a citizen and to all citizens of the United States."
"A constructive deal could easily have been struck at the time. But it wasn’t," Trump said. "At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction that a murderous regime desired only a peaceful nuclear energy program."
Trump said that he is signing "a presidential memorandum to begin reinstating US nuclear sanctions on the Iranian regime."
Trump kept the deal alive several times since he took office following the advice of his advisors. When he renewed the waivers in January, he warned it would be the last time unless the nuclear deal was fixed to address the main issues he has with the deal. Some of the president's issues with the deal include the sunsetting of several provisions, the fact that nuclear inspectors cannot demand to see certain military sites, and that the deal does nothing to address Iran's ballistic missile program or the regime's support for terrorists.
Trump promised that pulling out of the nuclear agreement would "make America much safer."
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