President Trump will announce next week that he will “decertify” the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
The president’s announcement is expected to be made as part of a broader Iran policy speech tentatively scheduled for Oct. 12. Trump has until Oct. 15 to tell Congress if he believes Iran is complying with the seven-nation pact.
“We’re going to give [Trump] a couple of options of how to move forward to advance the important policy toward Iran,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters Wednesday.
Trump’s reported announcement would not scrap the deal on its own. If he does decertify the deal, Congress could reintroduce economic sanctions on Iran that were suspended under the agreement. If that happens, Iran has threatened to walk away from the arrangement and restart activities that could take it closer to nuclear weapons.
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