WH Officials Insist US Will Remain In The Iran Deal, Despite Trump’s Criticism

United Nations, New York, USA, 03 April 2017 - Nikki Haley, United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for April, briefs journalists on the Councils program of ... United Nations, New York, USA, 03 April 2017 - Nikki Haley, United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for April, briefs journalists on the Councils program of work for the month today at the UN Headquarters in New York. Photo by: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley on Sunday insisted that the United States will remain in the Iran nuclear deal.

President Donald Trump on Friday said he would likely pull the U.S. out of the deal unless Congress and the other nations in the seven-country accord made a handful of adjustments he demanded.

“Let’s see if we cannot address the flaws in the agreement by staying within the agreement, working with the other signatories, working with our European friends and allies within the agreement,” Tillerson said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

He said “that may come in a secondary agreement as well.”

“So we want to take the agreement as it exists today, as I said, fully enforce that agreement, be very demanding of Iran’s compliance under the agreement, and then begin the process of addressing these flaws that we see,” Tillerson said.

“Before the Senate not long ago, your counterpart at the Pentagon, Secretary Mattis, was asked if he thought staying in the agreement was in the best interests of the United States,” Jake Tapper said, referring to Secretary of Defense James Mattis. “It sounds like you agree with that as well.”

“I do agree with that,” Tillerson said. “And I think the President does as well.”

“I think what you’re going to see is the President’s going to work very closely with Congress to try and come up with something that is more proportionate,” Haley said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”

“I think right now, you’re going to see us stay in the deal. Because what we hope is that we can improve the situation,” she said. “We’re in the deal to see how we can make it better. And that’s the goal. It’s not that we’re getting out of the deal.”

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  1. In other words, blah-blah, woof-woof.

    Given El Jefe’s episodic attention span and propensity for “all sound and fury, signifying nothing”, who knows?

    Is it just me, or does our UN ambassador need a liter of prune juice STAT?

  2. I think I’ll wait for the Official Tweets.
    Then ignore them.

  3. Why would anybody with two functioning brain cells believe anything this bunch says? Maybe they mean it when they say it, maybe they’re echoing something Trump said five minutes ago, maybe Trump will say something totally different five minutes from now. Who the hell knows?

    Whatever, don’t you ever trust them. And, when I say “you,” I mean my fellow citizens, and I mean the leaders and people of every other country in the world.

    Don’t trust Trump. Don’t trust his employees. And, for safety’s sale, don’t trust the United States of America. Ever again.

  4. Request permission to stand up on behalf of “idiots”!
    Never mind, it’s covered by Tillerson and Haley.

  5. Baron Harkonnen needs to vent rather often.

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