Vice President Mike Pence: White House ‘evaluating’ President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal – Washington Times

The Trump administration put Iran on notice last week, but Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday that the White House right now is evaluating whether to keep in place the nuclear deal with Tehran that President Trump said hed shred if elected.

In an interview with ABC News that aired Sunday, the vice president said no decisions have been made as to whether the U.S. will honor the agreement made between the Obama administration, Iran and other world powers. The deal aims to halt Irans nuclear program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.

The Iranians got a deal from the international community that again, the president and I and our administration think was a terrible deal. It essentially allows Iran to develop a nuclear weapon in the years ahead at a date certain. And they received hundreds of millions of dollars in cash in exchange, Mr. Pence said.

Asked whether that deal will remain, Mr. Pence said, Were evaluating that as we speak.

The U.S. slapped renewed sanctions on Iran last week after the country, considered a leading state sponsor of terrorism, defied the international community by conducting ballistic missile tests.

Top Democrats have joined the White House in condemning those tests.

I think Iran is wrong on this, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, told Fox News Sunday.

As for the nuclear deal, House Speaker Paul Ryan on Sunday seemed to indicate that it would be unwise and perhaps logistically impossible to undo the deal entirely, specifically when it comes to reimposing multilateral economic sanctions on Iran that were lifted as part of the agreement.

A lot of that toothpaste is already out of the tube. I never supported the deal in the first place. I thought it was a huge mistake. But the multilateral sanctions are done, the speaker told NBCs Meet the Press. I dont think youre going to go back and reconstitute the multilateral sanctions that were in place.

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