Trump announces withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal

May 09, 2018 00:03

United States President Donald Trump has announced that he is quitting the Iran nuclear deal.

"I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal," Trump said from the White House.

"It is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and cotton structure of the current agreement," he said.

"The Iran deal is defective at its core. If we do nothing we know exactly what will happen," he added.

In announcing his decision, Trump will initiate new sanctions to go forward, crippling the touchstone agreement negotiated by his predecessor, according to a US official and a person familiar with the plan.

"The so-called Iran deal was supposed to protect the United States and our allies from the lunacy of an Iranian nuclear bomb, a weapon that will only endanger the survival of the Iranian regime," the President said.

"In fact, the deal allowed Iran to continue enriching uranium and over time reach the brink of a nuclear breakout," he said.

"Today, we have definitive proof that this Iranian promise was a lie," the president added.

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