Top U.S. senator: Trump administration won't toss Iran deal

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters


Fri Jan 6, 2017 | 11:56am EST
By Patricia Zengerle | WASHINGTON

The chair of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said that abrupt rejection of the Iran nuclear deal by the incoming Trump administration could create "a crisis" and that he did not expect such an approach.

"To tear it up on the front end, in my opinion, is not going to happen. Instead, we will begin to radically enforce it," Senator Bob Corker told reporters on Friday at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. He said he expected strong enforcement of the international agreement, announced in July 2015, in which Iran agreed to curtail its nuclear program in exchange for relief from crippling economic sanctions.

Concern about the Iran deal under Trump, who at times has pledged to pull Washington out of it, has led to worries that Tehran would be unable to attract foreign investment and that its economy could collapse.

"To me the prudent course of action is to make sure you enforce it, that you hold the UN Security Council accountable," Corker said. "And in the event the agreement falls apart, it's someone else that is causing it to fall apart, not a president coming in on day one and ripping up the agreement."

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa-idUSKBN14Q1QI

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Therefore, the agreement will be ripped up

on day one, by trump himself.

These Republicans don't seem to understand how he upends everything
to suit himself.

[justhanginon]

2. In other words, we still want it to fail but do not want to

shoulder the direct responsibility. We'll screw around the edges of it and try to hide our way of killing it indirectly through crippling sanctions etc. The caveat to that plan is that this is just not between The U.S. and Iran it includes other major nations that may not go along with the our actions and keep it in place.

[Phoenix61]

3. The prudent thing to do is....

and he thinks Trump is going to do that? The prudent thing? Where has he been?If that is how Trump acts in Corker's alternate reality I want to move there, now.

[Javaman]

4. boy are those tRump supporters going to be mad when they finally realize

as all of us had many many year ago, that tRump is nothing more than bluster and bullshit.

[Nitram]

5. Today, they won't toss it. But tomorrow they might. And the next day they will, but...

[n2doc]

6. Russia and Iran are allies

Putin won't let tRump do squat.

[Mosby]

8. sort of allies

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/iran/2016-08-31/iran-and-russias-uncomfortable-alliance

It should be interesting to see how Trump engages with the GCC. If things go south expect much higher gas prices. That's what Russia and Iran want.

[pbmus]

7. This is why it will happen

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512675232