By placing the US in violation of the #IranDeal, Trump is undermining negotiations w/ North Korea before they even begin. With this move, he sends the message that even if you fulfill commitments & don't cheat, you still can't rely on the US to live up to its end of an agreement.
Trump should point to the #IranDeal’s intrusive inspections & extensive access by the IAEA as a model for any agreement w/ North Korea. These unprecedented verification provisions are innovations to emulate. Instead, he has dealt a significant blow to nuclear verification.
Trump doesn’t seem to understand or simply doesn’t care to understand how difficult it has been to build and sustain a coordinated approach to address Iran’s nuclear program. Instead, he’s keen to blow up years’ worth of diplomacy without offering a viable alternative.
Our European allies spent years working on the complex diplomatic processes that eventually led to the #IranDeal. They will view this reckless move as a crisis of Trump’s making - an “unfriendly act” that puts their national security at risk.
Trump’s wrecking ball approach shows an inability to grasp statecraft. Instead of destroying a working deal, he should use the leverage he would gain by following through on commitments to pursue talks w/ Tehran on its activities that run counter to US interests in the region.
I heard 1 reason Trump hates the #IranDeal is b/c it changed Iran’s relations w/the world, but it didn’t change the US relationship w/Iran. He of all people should get that it was a transactional deal. If he wants transformational, he should do the hard work required to get there
