28 Mar 2024
Friday 11 November 2016 - 16:16
Story Code : 238698

Trump would review Iran deal rather than cancelling it: Adviser

Al Manar- US President-elect will review the Iran nuclear agreement, but will stop short of ripping up the landmark international pact, a senior adviser said on Thursday.

Walid Phares, one of Trumps top foreign policy advisers, also signaled that Trump might not move the US Embassy to al-Quds (Jerusalem) immediately and indicated he would make negotiating an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal a priority right off the bat.

The comments appeared to represent a break with some comments made by other Trump advisers and the president-elect himself, and highlighted persisting confusion over what the contours of a Trump administrations foreign policy may look like.

Speaking to BBC Radio on Thursday, Phares said the nuclear deal, which Trump has railed against and vowed to dismantle, would instead be renegotiated with Tehran.

Ripping up is maybe a too strong of word, hes gonna take that agreement, its been done before in international context, and then review it, he said, according to a CNN recording of the interview.

He will take the agreement, review it, send it to Congress, demand from the Iranians to restore a few issues or change a few issues, and there will be a discussion, he added.

It could be a tense discussion but the agreement as is right now $750 billion to the Iranian regime without receiving much in return and increasing intervention in four countries that is not going to be accepted by the Trump administration.

During the election campaign, Trump described the nuclear deal as disastrous and said it would be his number one priority to dismantle it
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