President Donald Trump on Monday rejected Sen. Chris Coons‘s (D-DE) claim that the White House is preparing to offer Iran a deal similar to former President Barack Obama’s controversial nuclear agreement with the regime.
On Sunday, Coons cited “press accounts” as he suggested Trump was “moving towards negotiation offering around a deal that looks somewhat similar” to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Obama signed with Iran in 2015. Trump pulled the United States out of the JCPOA during his first term in office, as it was criticized, particularly by Republicans, for failing to sufficiently curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Steep U.S. sanctions remain in place against the regime, amounting to “arguably the most extensive and comprehensive set of sanctions that the United States maintains on any country.”
