Washington, Oct 14 (AFP) President Donald Trump is"creating an international crisis" with his "dangerous"decision to decertify the Iran nuclear deal, John Kerry, theformer Secretary of State who negotiated the agreement, saidtoday.
"It endangers America's national security interests andthose of our closest allies," Kerry said of the move by Trump,who has long criticized the agreement, which is aimed atcurbing Tehran's nuclear program.
In a speech pocked with grievances dating to the 1979Islamic Revolution, Trump railed against the "Iraniandictatorship, its sponsorship of terrorism, and its continuingaggression in the Middle East and all around the world."While he threatened to rip up the 2015 agreement, hestopped short of doing so for now, instead taking theprocedural step of "decertifying" it, leaving its fate in thehands of the Republican-controlled Congress.
Kerry called on the legislature to stand in Trump's way,saying that "the stakes are enormous for Congress.""That means rejecting president's plan and thelegislative maneuvers being contemplated that would unravelthe agreement once and for all," he said. (AFP)CHT.
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