TILLERSON’S STRATEGIC IMPATIENCE: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared America’s “strategic patience” is exhausted with Iran as well as North Korea, while criticizing the Iran nuclear deal reached under President Obama as one that simply tries to buy off Iran and leave the consequences for later generations.
“Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, and is responsible for intensifying multiple conflicts and undermining U.S. interests in countries such as Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon, and continuing to support attacks against Israel,” Tillerson said during an address from the State Department. “An unchecked Iran has the potential to travel the same path as North Korea and take the world along with it. The United States is keen to avoid a second piece of evidence that strategic patience is a failed approach,” Tillerson said.
