A top Republican senator is warning of US President Donald Trump’s “likely” decision to quit the Iran nuclear deal, suggesting that Europeans are to blame.
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker made the comment on CBS on Sunday as Trump was approaching a May 12 deadline for a decision on his administrations’ policy towards the internationally backed agreement.
“The Iran deal will be another issue that’s coming up in May, and right now it doesn’t feel like it’s going to be extended. I think the president likely will move away from it, unless my — our European counterparts really come together on a framework. And it doesn’t feel to me that they are,” said the Tennessee Republican.
“You think the president’s going to pull out of that Iran deal on May 12th?” CBS anchor Margaret Brennan asked, to which Corker replied, “I do. I do.”
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