President Trump announced on Tuesday that he would be pulling the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal, calling the agreement “defective at its core.”“At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction, that a murderous regime desired only a peaceful, nuclear energy program,” Trump said from the White House. “Today, we have definitive proof that this Iranian promise was a lie.”Under the 2015 nuclear deal struck by the United States under the Obama administration, world powers, and Iran, sanctions against Tehran were lifted in exchange for Iran’s cooperation in restricting its nuclear program. "It will isolate the United States from nearly every major world power," Biden said in a statement, adding that any talk about a "'better deal' is an illusion." Politicians on both sides of the aisle also reacted to Trump’s decision on the Iran deal. Israel "fully supports" Trump's decision, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on Twitter.

Source: Fox News May 08, 2018 20:34 UTC