Zumwalt: The Danger of Trump Throttling Back on an Iran Nuclear Deal Overhaul
President Donald Trump has never hesitated to make his opinion known on the nuclear deal negotiated by President Barack Obama with Iran.
President Donald Trump has never hesitated to make his opinion known on the nuclear deal negotiated by President Barack Obama with Iran.
The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday that German security officials have accused Iran of continuing to work on nuclear missile technology in defiance of President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley urged the U.N. Security Council to back President Trump’s tougher stance on Iran Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – Iran’s military chief of staff vowed Wednesday that Tehran would confront Israel for “violating” Syrian territory after a strike two days earlier by the IDF on an anti-aircraft battery which fired missiles at Israeli planes inside the war-torn country.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Syrian conflict in a phone call Wednesday afternoon, two days after Israeli jets bombed an anti-aircraft battery near Damascus which had fired on an Israeli plane, the Kremlin said.
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about Kurdish independence in Iraq, the Iran nuclear deal’s continued survival after decertification, and the rising strategic threat of China.
WASHINGTON – Various Republicans from both chambers of Congress acknowledged that the Iran nuclear deal is “flawed” and a threat to U.S. national security, but fell short of urging President Donald Trump to kill the agreement.
During a congressional briefing on Capitol Hill on Thursday titled “Iran Regime’s Threats and Rights Violations: Policy Options,” Republican and Democrat congressmen and congresswomen gathered to express their commitment to supporting the people of Iran in their quest to achieve a free Iran.
AMMAN – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said President Donald Trump’s hardline position on the nuclear deal, outlined in his decertification speech on Friday, would help prevent Iran from obtaining an arsenal of nuclear weapons in the next few years.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the fate of the Iran nuclear deal after President Trump’s announcement of decertification on Friday.
On Monday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer argued that whether Iran is complying with the nuclear deal isn’t relevant because the real danger is Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon by complying with the deal. Dermer
NEW YORK – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday that all citizens of the country were Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), standing firm “against aggression and terror” amid threats by President Donald Trump to impose harsher sanctions on Tehran.
NEW YORK – Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said on Saturday praised President Donald Trump’s speech on Iran as “brave” and slammed Europe – the UK, France and Germany – for “burying their heads in the sand” by staying committed to the deal.
On Saturday’s “MSNBC Live,” Daily Beast columnist and MSNBC analyst Jonathan Alter argued President Trump just wants to destroy anything President Obama did and “Even Vladimir Putin” thinks Trump is “wrong on Iran.” Alter said, “It’s really pathetic. You know, this is
WASHINGTON, DC — Some experts welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to decertify the Iran nuclear deal, but they said the American leader should have gone a step further and killed the agreement, which some analysts argue has strengthened Tehran’s narco-terror proxy Hezbollah and its hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
“My number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran,” Trump said in March 2016 speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Republicans in the Senate and House praised President Trump’s decision on Friday to decertify the Iran nuclear deal and allow Congress to take on the matter.
Iran’s response to President Trump’s decertification of the nuclear deal, teased all week and finally made official on Friday, includes a mixture of belligerent rhetoric, ominous threats, and uncertainty about whether the deal can survive.
On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Tom Shillue Show,” Representative Steve King (R-IA) argued President Trump’s decertification of the Iran nuclear deal is a “strong” action that puts Congress in position to shelve the deal altogether. King said Trump’s
In his keynote speech to the Texas National Security Forum at the University of Texas on Thursday, CIA Director Mike Pompeo called Iran a “thuggish police state” and “despotic theocracy” similar to the Islamic State.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – From its warmongering in Iraq, Syria, and to a degree in Yemen, to its meddling in Lebanon, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian territories and Turkey, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its terrorist proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, have caused chaos in the Middle East region since it came to power in 1979.
Voice of America reported on Thursday that “some U.S. officials see little downside to decertifying the Iran nuclear deal,” but the tenor of those quoted in the piece might be better described as, “decertifying the deal is not a big deal.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he has authorized the U.S. Department of Treasury to sanction Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization under terrorism Executive Order 13224; a move the leader of the free world said was “long overdue.”
President Donald Trump announced Friday he will not certify Iran’s compliance with the Iran deal, effectively putting the ball in Congress’s court on whether to end the deal.
President Donald Trump will not re-certify to Congress Iranian compliance with the landmark nuclear deal signed in 2015 under President Barack Obama, but will keep the agreement itself in place. Congress will be urged to pass new “trigger points” to
Former Navy SEAL and Blackwater CEO Erik Prince joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the Iran nuclear deal, chances that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps will be designated a terrorist organization, and the state of affairs in Afghanistan.
With the possibility of President Donald Trump formally designating Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization, the two top Iranian commanders praised their corps as terrorism fighters and accused the United States of providing material support to the Islamic State, including weapons.
A source “familiar with the meeting” described President Trump as “furious” at Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and other advisers for defending the Iran nuclear deal in a July meeting, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
The Russian government confirmed Thursday that President Vladimir Putin will visit Iran “before the end of this year” for a “trilateral Iran-Russia-Azerbaijan meeting.”
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, chief strategist for the MAGA Coalition, formerly Deputy Assistant to President Trump and Breitbart News National Security editor, appeared on Breitbart News Daily Thursday to talk about what SiriusXM host Alex Marlow described as potentially “one of the signature wins” of the Trump administration: decertifying the Iran nuclear deal.
Republicans in Congress will face a wrenching choice if President Trump follows through on decertifying the Iran nuclear deal.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told a cabinet meeting on Wednesday that it shouldn’t bother Iran if the United States withdraws from the nuclear deal. “If any side fails to stand committed to the deal, it would be tarnishing its own reputation,” he said. Meanwhile, the Iranian resistance has accused Rouhani’s government of systematically cheating on the nuclear deal.
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the fate of the Iran nuclear deal.
Fox News reports on three German intelligence reports that say Iran attempted to purchase illicit nuclear and ballistic missile technology no less than 32 times in 2016 — and that was just in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has once again duped American media into thinking his opinion matters.
The deadline to renew or reject the Iran nuclear deal brokered by President Barack Obama is approaching, and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) argued Monday it is also time for President Donald’s Trump’s national security team to back his plan to pull out of the deal or get out of the White House.
BERLIN — German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said Sunday that he feared US President Donald Trump would quit the Iran nuclear deal next week.
The New York Times cites sources briefed on President Trump’s plans for the Iran nuclear deal who say the president intends to decertify the deal without fully withdrawing from it. This will reignite what the Times calls a “volatile political debate” in Congress and effectively force the legislature to make the next move.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, chief strategist for the MAGA Coalition, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow for a full hour on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the possible end of the Iran nuclear deal. Gorka said that “the jury is not out” on the potential recertification of the Iran nuclear deal in October.
A member of the Iranian team that negotiated the 2015 nuclear deal has reportedly been convicted on espionage charges and sentenced to five years in prison.