THE PLAN FOR IRAN: President Trump will announce his decision regarding the Iran nuclear agreement and lay out the way ahead for dealing with Tehran in remarks scheduled for 12:45 p.m., according to the White House. The president has made no secret of his loathing for the agreement negotiated by the Obama administration, along with Britain, France, Germany, China Russia and the EU. All those other countries say Iran is in compliance with the terms of the deal, which is designed to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability over the next decade. Trump’s own senior military adviser, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, told Congress last week, “Iran is not in material breach of the agreement, and I do believe the agreement to date has delayed the development of a nuclear capability by Iran.”

So Trump is expected to declare the deal is not in the interest of U.S. national security. “It was a very bad deal,” Trump told Fox News Wednesday night. “I’m not saying anything different tonight that I haven’t been saying for two years. It’s a horrible, horrible embarrassment to our country. We did it out of weakness when actually, we have great strength.”