A top foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump said in a recent interview that the presumptive Republican nominee would not end the United States’ nuclear agreement with Iran.
Walid Phares, who was announced as a part of Trump’s foreign policy team, argued that the real estate mogul would allow the deal to stand but would want to renegotiate the deal more in the favor of the U.S. The deal, which was agreed to last April, has been a point of consternation for Republicans, with many calling for the agreement to be ripped up in full.
“No, he’s not going to get rid of an agreement that has the institutional signature of the United States,” Phares told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “He is a man of institutions. But he’s going to look back on it the institutional way. He’s said, so far that he doesn’t like this deal and that it was poorly negotiated. Once elected, he’s going to renegotiate it after talking through it with his advisers.”
Phares also said that Trump could send the agreement back to Congress as part of his renegotiation, adding further that he will not be going through with the deal “as is.”
“One of the clear possibilities is he will send it back to Congress,” Phares said. “The reaction of the Iranian leadership will be the next phase. So he is not going to implement it as is, he is going to revise it after negotiating one on one with Iran or with a series of allies.”
Trump himself has been a vocal critic of the deal. Last September, Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz headlined a rally against the deal on the National Mall in Washington.
