“What happens next is significantly in Congress’s hands,” Haley said in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. She could not “pre-judge” what Trump would do, she said, but she argued strongly he would have “grounds” to withdraw his certification for the 2015 nuclear deal, under which Iran significantly reduced the scale of its nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief. “If the president does not certify Iranian compliance, then the nuclear agreement will unravel, although not necessarily immediately. “If it goes back on his desk, it’s probably the end of the nuclear deal,” Goldenberg said. “The Iran deal is about the nuclear issue, nothing else.

Source: The Guardian September 05, 2017 21:02 UTC