Trump On Withdrawing From Iran Nuclear Deal: ‘You Will See Very Soon’

President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Palace Hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Monday, Sept. 18, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Monday, Sept. 18, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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A longtime, vocal critic of an Obama-era nuclear deal with Iran, President Donald Trump on Monday was noncommittal about honoring the pact.

Trump was asked about the historic pact during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of Trump’s first address before the United Nations General Assembly this week. “You’ll see very soon. You’ll be seeing very soon,” Trump told reporters.

“We are talking about it constantly. Constantly. We are talking about plans constantly, we’ll see,” Trump added.

Trump has called the 2015 deal — which limits Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear arsenal in exchange for lifting sanctions against the country — the “worst deal ever negotiated.”

Trump and Netanyahu share a mutual disdain for the deal, and Trump has already signaled he’d like to withdraw certification of the agreement in October and push for new U.S. sanctions against Iran, The Guardian reported.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said there would be consequences if the U.S. withdrew.

“Exiting such an agreement would carry a high cost for the United States of America and I do not believe that Americans would be willing to pay such a high cost for something that will be useless for them,” Rouhani told CNN. “It will yield no results for the United States, but at the same time it will generally decrease and cut away and chip away at international trust placed in the United States of America.”

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  1. What? What will we see?

    Donnie earns a 100% BBB score.

    Bullshit, Blundering, and Bravado

  2. Friday, HuckSand “No announcement today”
    Saturday- WeThe Commander In Cheat pulls out

  3. Even if its in his speech he likely has no idea what the content is.

    Edit: Someone needs to make up a random thing and ask him about it, and see if he does the you will see very soon bs.

  4. I think that International Trust boat already sailed, way the hell back on Nov. 8, 2016.

  5. Yeah, I like that. Like how much longer we’ll continue to observe the Zagreboni Zone agreement.

    BTW blowing off an agreement to restrict nuclear warhead development in North Korea was how we wound up with nuclear warheads being developed in North Korea. Nobody knew how complicated it was to simply not walk away from an agreement that was at least imperfectly working.

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