"This disastrous deal gave this regime - and it's a regime of great terror - many billions of dollars, some of it in actual cash - a great embarrassment to me as a citizen & to all citizens of the #UnitedStates" per @POTUS
— Jeff Seldin (@jseldin) May 8, 2018
BREAKING: "Therefore I am announcing today that the #UnitedStates will withdraw from the #Iran nuclear deal" says @POTUS, says the US will reinstate "the highest level of economic sanction"on #Tehran
— Jeff Seldin (@jseldin) May 8, 2018
"Any nation that helps #Iran in its quest for nuclear weapons could also be strongly sanctioned," per @POTUS "America will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail."
— Jeff Seldin (@jseldin) May 8, 2018
Okay, so a couple of things right off the bat: Trump is just telling straight-up lies about the current state of Iran's nuclear development in order to justify the spectacularly stupid and dangerous withdrawal from the agreement struck by the Obama administration. And not only is he isolating the United States via the withdrawal itself, but he's threatening sanctions against countries who provide assistance to Iran, potentially including European allies who remain in the deal. This is absolute madness.
CNN’s Amanpour: “I would describe pulling out of this deal [nuke deal] as possibly the greatest deliberate act of self-harm and self-sabotage in geo-strategic politics in the modern era.” @camanpour
— Mohsen Milani (@milanimohsen) May 8, 2018
Well, sort of. That presumes that Trump isn't acting under pressure from Putin — making yet another foreign policy decision that stands to fundamentally and immediately weaken the United States' standing and safety in the world, and subsequently benefitting Russia.
National Security Advisor and slavering warmonger John Bolton came out after Trump to give a briefing, and he reiterated Trump's lie that Iran is currently in violation of the parameters of the deal, declared "We're out of the deal," and said:
"It sends a very clear signal the United States will not accept inadequate deals," says @AmbJohnBolton.
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) May 8, 2018
Actually, it sends a very clear signal that the United States cannot be trusted to keep its word, so there's no sense in making deals with us anymore.
By withdrawing from the Iran Deal, the White House is sending a message to the world that America's word can’t be trusted. There’s nothing more dangerous than that. https://t.co/xPpRZugooa
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) May 8, 2018
Rep. Pelosi:
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 8, 2018
"The President's decision to follow his misguided and uninformed campaign promise to destroy the successful Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action endangers global security and defies comprehension. This rash decision isolates America, not Iran." https://t.co/jlDH91crEG
Meanwhile...
BREAKING: Iran's president says if negotiations fail, Islamic Republic will enrich uranium 'more than before ... in next weeks'
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 8, 2018
We are not safer because of this awful decision. No matter how many times Trump says it, it's not true. We are far less safer than we were, even an hour ago.
Trump is risking our lives to aggrandize his own. That is the worst kind of leadership imaginable. It is devastating, every fucking day, that he is the president of a superpower.
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