WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. “I am announcing today that the U.S. will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal,” Trump said at the White House. Trump also cited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s April 30 presentation on Iran’s nuclear program, which alleged that Iran lied about its past nuclear activities before negotiating the nuclear deal. “At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction: that a murderous regime desired only a peaceful nuclear energy program. But most of the economic benefits Iran receives through the nuclear deal do not come directly from the U.S., which maintains a primary embargo against Iran.

Source: Huffington Post May 08, 2018 18:28 UTC