US President Donald Trump has kicked the fate of the landmark Iran nuclear deal to the Congress, ignoring the advice of worried allies as he vowed to confront the “fanatical regime” in Tehran. Trump defended his decision to “decertify” Iran’s compliance with the 2015 agreement in a speech Friday that evoked US grievances dating back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The Republican-controlled Congress now has 60 days to decide whether to reimpose sanctions on Iran, a step that if taken would almost certainly doom the accord. The US president said he supports efforts in Congress to work on new measures to address the broader threats posed by Iran without immediately torpedoing the nuclear deal. Trump has repeatedly pledged to overturn one of his predecessor Barack Obama’s crowning foreign policy achievements, deriding it as “the worst deal” and one agreed to out of “weakness.”

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 14, 2017 15:11 UTC