No Trump agreement could be as bad as Obama’s Iran nuclear deal

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The United States may have negotiated a deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran to end the war, but the specifics of the deal are, so far, opaque, with much misinformation circulating. This has led some to claim that the Trump administration’s deal is nothing more than a retread of the Obama administration’s 2015 deal with Iran, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Ben Rhodes, who was the main Obama administration proponent of the JCPOA, has most vehemently made the case that the U.S. went to war in 2026, only to get less than the deal former President Barack Obama secured in 2015, and that this has weakened the U.S. 

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