{"id":388993,"date":"2018-12-13T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T12:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-delusional-on-iran-nuclear-deal-us-senator\/"},"modified":"2018-12-13T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T12:15:07","slug":"presstv-trump-delusional-on-iran-nuclear-deal-us-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-delusional-on-iran-nuclear-deal-us-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump &#8216;delusional&#8217; on Iran nuclear deal: US senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump is being \u201cdelusional\u201d about the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, says Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, accusing the Republican leader of undermining the international deal out of spite for his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump claimed in a tweet on Wednesday that the Obama administration had paid Iran $150 billion to negotiate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was signed between Tehran and six world powers \u2013 the US, the UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The businessman-turned-politician left the deal in May, arguing that it didn\u2019t address Washington&#8217;s concerns regarding Iran\u2019s nuclear energy and ballistic missile programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump is delusional and clearly has never read the Iran deal,\u201d Kaine wrote on Twitter Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iran deal did not &#8220;give&#8221; Iran one penny; it released Iran&#8217;s own money frozen in bank accounts. It imposed restrictions and inspections&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/13\/582803\/US-Trump-Iran-nuclear-deal-tim-kaine\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump is being \u201cdelusional\u201d about the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, says Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, accusing the Republican leader of undermining the international deal out of spite for his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama. Trump claimed in a tweet on Wednesday that the Obama administration had paid Iran $150 billion to negotiate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-388993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}