Us President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced the United States’ withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal, which he called “defective at its core.”
Trump on Tuesday signed a presidential memorandum withdrawing from the 2015 agreement as he is planning to reinstall sanctions on the Iranian regime. In an address to the nation, he said he will be reinstituting the highest level of sanctions and warning any country not to help the Iranian Government.
Trump said America “will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail” and will not allow “a regime that chants ‘Death to America’” to get access to nuclear weapons.
The President said he made the decision after consulting with the US allies.
President Donald Trump is railing against the Iran nuclear agreement as “a horrible, one-sided deal” based on a lie.
Trump’s comments Tuesday come as he announced plans to follow through on his campaign threat to pull out of the landmark nuclear accord with Iran during a televised address at the White House.
Trump added if he allowed the deal to stand, there would soon be a nuclear arms race.
He too said a constructive deal could easily have been struck at the time, but it wasn’t. Trump called Iran a “regime of great terror.”
And he said “no action taken by the regime has been more dangerous than its pursuit of nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them.”
Meanwhile, Israel’s military said forces are on high alert and is urging civilians in the Golan Heights near Syria to prepare bomb shelters.
The military directive Tuesday came “following the identification of irregular activity of Iranian forces in Syria.” It said the Defence systems have been deployed.
Iran’s state-run news agency is quoting an anonymous official said President Hassan Rouhani will give a televised address after President Donald Trump announces his intention to pull America out of the Iran nuclear deal.
IRNA filed the report late on Tuesday, just ahead of Trump’s speech from the White House’s Diplomatic Room.
IRNA offered no other immediate details.