{"id":23651,"date":"2017-10-06T19:02:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T18:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/nuclear\/23651-trump-must-decertify-and-abandon-iran-deal"},"modified":"2024-02-21T19:08:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T18:08:06","slug":"trump-must-decertify-and-abandon-iran-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/trump-must-decertify-and-abandon-iran-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Must Decertify and Abandon Iran Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NCRI Staff<\/p>\n<p>NCRI &#8211; A senior fellow at the National Review Institute wrote an op-ed for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/452334\/iran-nuclear-deal-trump-should-decertify-negotiate-new-deal\" rel=\"noopener\">National Review<\/a> advising Donald Trump to decertify the Iranian nuclear deal and walk away from the pact altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew C. McCarthy wrote that Iran has not been compliant with the nuclear deal for even a moment and that the US must stand strong to support human rights and oppose terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy calls it \u201cshameful\u201d that Trump has already certified the Iranian Regime\u2019s compliance (despite the compelling evidence) twice so far in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: Trump insisted throughout the 2016 campaign that the deal \u2014 formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) \u2014 was the worst and most dangerous in the history of deals. Just two weeks ago, addressing the U.N. General Assembly, he described it as an \u201cembarrassment\u201d and \u201cone of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into.\u201d Yet, under the statute that calls for presidential findings every 90 days, the president, in recertifying, represented to Congress and the American people (a) that Iran is transparently, verifiably, and fully implementing the agreement and (b) that continuing the JCPOA is vital to the national security interests of the United States. These assertions insult the intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also asserted that Iran\u2019s threats to US national security go far beyond that which is agreed to in the nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: \u201cQuite apart from violating the terms of the JCPOA and refusing to permit verifiable inspections from the start, Iran continues to be the world\u2019s No. 1 sponsor of anti-American terrorism, backing Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Taliban, a network of Iraqi cells, and the Houthis in Yemen, to cite just the best-known examples. That\u2019s not just me talking; the regime continues to be one of just three countries on the U.S. government\u2019s official terrorist list (the others are Syria, which is Iran\u2019s cat\u2019s-paw, and Sudan, which has longstanding ties to the regime in Tehran).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy advised Trump that is it time to walk away from the table, calling the administration&#8217;s plan to decertify while keeping the deal intact \u201ca terrible plan\u201d<br \/>\nHe wrote: \u201cThe rationalization for keeping the JCPOA is that Iran has already gotten most of the deal\u2019s goodies. Abandoning the deal now would hurt us more than the mullahs, the thinking goes, because it would relieve them of the deal\u2019s burdens. That\u2019s preposterous. Under the terms of the JCPOA and its undisclosed side deals, we do not and cannot know whether Iran is performing its obligations. More significantly, even if we could verify and even if Iran were in compliance, the deal does not prevent Iran from acquiring nukes; it just slows the mullahs down for a few more years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He points out that the US still holds enough leverage to bring Iran back to the negotiating table afterwards for a better deal because there is not a country on earth that would rather trade with Iran than the US.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: \u201cIf the president wants to negotiate, let it be on a new deal and on America\u2019s terms \u2014 which, you may remember, are that Iran does not get nuclear weapons, must honour its obligations on weapons development and proliferation, and must cease promoting terrorism. No other deal is worth having.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; NCRI Staff NCRI &ndash; A senior fellow at the National Review Institute wrote an op-ed for National Review advising Donald Trump to decertify the Iranian nuclear deal and walk [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-23651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nuclear","7":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump Must Decertify and Abandon Iran Deal - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; NCRI Staff NCRI - A senior fellow at the National Review Institute wrote an op-ed for National Review advising Donald Trump to decertify the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/trump-must-decertify-and-abandon-iran-deal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump Must Decertify and Abandon Iran Deal - NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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