Actually central to doing the iran deal the comments of the former National Security deputy National Security adviser under president Obama Ben Rhodes are worth perhaps bringing to you he said that this was people in the white house trying to come up with a rationalization for President Trumps irrational decisions he said it was the trumpet ministration contorting itself to justify trumps earlier comments all right well thanks very much james bays now will and speaks in wired bet later on bet on that now speaking about earlier from the white house trying to describe iran is being a threat to the u. S. And the world the regime remains the worlds leading state sponsor of terrorism. And provides assistance to al qaeda the taleban hezbollah mosques and other terrorist networks it develops deploys and proliferates missiles that threaten american troops and our allies it harasses american ships and threatens freedom of navigation in the arabian gulf and in the red sea it imprisons americans
One of the worst deals the u. S. Has ever entered into that is how the u. S. President is describing the year wrong deal donald trump announced today he would not certify the twenty fifteen nuclear deal and he kept the ball to congress which was now the side whether to reimpose sanctions im sorry harmon in berlin and this the day. The iran deal was one of the worst and most one sided transactions the United States has ever entered into the nuclear deal through irans dictatorship a political and economic lifeline providing urgently needed relief from the intense still mess to pressure the sanctions had created in the event we are not able to reach a solution working with congress and our allies and the agreement will be terminated and our participation can be cancelled by me as president at any time. Or you heard the man donald trump says he is prepared to cancel the Iran Nuclear Deal at any time now that deal was negotiated back in two thousand and fifteen by the us britain france and
Cannot recertify this now sort of moving to the next stage the u. S. Congress for now it will be up to the congress to decide under u. S. Law whether or not to reimpose sanctions that had been lifted under the agreement even worked to make sort of tougher benchmarks if you will that iran must meet in exchange for not reimposing any sanctions or the u. S. Congress could do nothing at all those are really the next steps but what were hearing from congress is there is a willingness that there is a feeling that twenty fifteen agreement was flawed in many respects and that there is an opportunity now to try and bolster it in a way that would meet u. S. National security interests and kimberly just how would you ninety two doored divided is on this im thinking even within trumps own party. The u. S. Congress is very much divided one thing though that does tend to bring some uniformity is iran and that has a lot to do because of the support for israel in the u. S. Congress which is very very
Arent an expert others may say oh wow thats amazing and they pass and pass it to the friends who pass it and pass and pass it on on the wiki p. D. And wait a second that seems unlikely lets see if we can verify that first and then they have a debate about the quality of the sourcing and so on and so forth so its very difficult when you really bring together a group of thoughtful people to pull the wool over their eyes is it one of the real problems for all of you guys trying to tackle this issue the huge problem is that people read what they want to read mostly just to confirm their own beliefs and biases these days they live in their own information bubbles cocoon silos and when they do see news that contradicts their identity or their narrative or their ideology they just dismiss it as fake and move on somewhere else how is wiki tribune going to solve that problem. Well i mean i think human nature is human nature and nothing is really changed about it certainly nothing is changed by
A chain of events that could lead to the collapse of its landmark nuclear deal. The iranian reactions been swift president has some rouhani says the speech was full of false statements and baseless claims. Of their Julien Macdonald this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. Position protesters defy a ban on demonstrations in kenya two are shot dead by police. Tensions escalate in Northern Iraq Kurdish Forces evacuate villages side of cocacola over fears of an iraq its high. A more problems for said africas president jacob zuma as a Key Court Ruling goes against him. All of their very warm welcome to the program u. S. President donald trump has laid out an aggressive new strategy on iran he did not pull the u. S. Of the nuclear deal struck in july twenty fifteen but hes decided not to certify iran as being in compliance with the accord wants congress to toughen u. S. Policy towards iran and if it cant reach an agreement trump says hell terminate the deal hell also ask congress