U.S. President Donald Trump reacts to a question from the media as National Security Advisor John Bolton and Vice President Mike Pence look on after the president announced his intention to withdraw from the JCPOA Iran nuclear agreement during a statement in the Diplomatic Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 8, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
By Steve Holland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was reimposing economic sanctions on Iran and pulling the United States out of an international agreement aimed at stopping Tehran from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
The decision is likely to raise the risk of conflict in the Middle East, upset America’s European allies and disrupt global oil supplies.
“I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal,” Trump said at the White House. “In a few moments, I will sign a presidential memorandum to begin reinstating U.S. nuclear sanctions on the Iranian regime. We will be instituting the highest level of economic sanctions.”
The 2015 deal, worked out by the United States, five other international powers and Iran, eased sanctions on Iran in exchange for Tehran limiting its nuclear program.
Trump says the agreement, the signature foreign policy achievement of Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama, does not address Iran’s ballistic missile program, its nuclear activities beyond 2025 nor its role in conflicts in Yemen and Syria.
Iran has ruled out renegotiating the agreement and threatened to retaliate, although it has not said exactly how, if Washington pulled out.
Renewing sanctions would make it much harder for Iran to sell its oil abroad or use the international banking system.
(Additional reporting by Tim Ahmann, Makini Brice, Warren Strobel and Arshad Mohammed in Washington, Ayenat Mersie in New York, Sybille de La Hamaide, John Irish and Tim Hepher in Paris, Parisa Hafezi in Ankara, Bozorgmehr Sharafedin in London, Andrew Torchia in Dubai; Writing by William Maclean and Alistair Bell; Editing by Peter Graff, Yara Bayoumy and Bill Trott)
Blessings ! I just want to say our President did the right thing. And we need to uplift him up in prayer even more now. Thank you Pastor Jim for having the prophet sadhu on your show i have been following him for three years.
TRAITOR, JOHN SWIFT-BOAT KERRY BETRAYED AMERICA IN 1970, yet because he MARRIED WEALTH the idiots in Massachusetts voted him into the U.S. Senate more than they realized what he had done, and Traitor, Usurper & LIAR-IN-CHIEF Obama, (A.K.A. Barry Soetoro) appointed the scum as Secretary of State after he appointed Hillary Rotten to enable her to continue to rip off Americans and accumulate huge wealth from America’s enemies. JUSTICE is on the horizon with many Criminal Convictions at hand. By the way John Kerry’s daughter married the son of Iranian Foreign Minister before signing the fraudulent deal and returning BILLIONS of Dollars to these sponsors of TERRORISM. He deserves to be tried for TREASON, NOW, Mr Trump. Don’t wait for the FBI to raid his many properties.
GOD is with you, Highly Anointed one. And so are the masses of the LEGAL CITIZENS. GO FOR IT!
And congratulations on the results of the Primaries here in California in June as we all WAKE UP to the evil deceptions. The polls are still wrong. ARREST JOHN HEINZ KERRY NOW!.