White House Seeks Leverage in Decertification of Iran Deal

President Trump and senior military leaders

President Donald Trump’s much-anticipated decertification of the Iran nuclear deal would hand the problem off to Congress, setting off a 60-day countdown for lawmakers to decide whether to re-impose sanctions — and leaving the accord in limbo.

Trump will not certify the Iran nuclear deal because the agreement is not in the national security interests of the U.S., according to a Washington Post report on Thursday. But he won’t recommend that Congress re-impose sanctions immediately.

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