Trump is also being encouraged to ditch the deal by hardliners on Capitol Hill, and… https://www.washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/07/11/Editorial-Opinion/Graphics/Tillerson_JCPOA_Letter07112017.pdf?tid=a_inl … 5/
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…Outside hawks like John Bolton are clamoring for trashing the agreement as well. http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/342237-opinion-trump-must-withdraw-from-iran-nuclear-deal-now … 6/
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Even if Trump doesn’t pull the plug, rising US-Iran tensions could have the same effect. I explain here: https://newrepublic.com/article/143592/nuclear-summer-trump-bluster-spark-war-iran … 7/
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Indeed, some on Trump’s staff hope to use rising tensions to bait Iran into exiting the agreement. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/us/politics/trump-iran-nuclear-deal-recertify.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 … 10/pic.twitter.com/O38oSgHC70
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Team Trump and outside advocates have advanced a number of arguments to lay the foundation for abandoning the deal. 11/
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1st, they claim Iran’s missiles & support regional militancy & terrorism violate the “spirit” of the nuke deal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-certifies-that-iran-is-meeting-terms-of-nuclear-deal/2017/07/17/58d0a362-6b4a-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-world%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.70580e136205 … 12/pic.twitter.com/QZuRCI4vXq
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Admin talking pts also accuse Obama of mistakenly prioritizing nukes at the expense of Iran’s other behavior. https://www.buzzfeed.com/markseibel/trump-certification-of-iran-nuclear-deal-comes-with-tough?utm_term=.asgbRD07K#.vu6mjWK1V … 13/pic.twitter.com/tOWZYGh8Wd
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Yet, as bad as Iran’s non-nuclear behavior is, it would be exponentially more dangerous if Iran had nuclear weapons. 14/
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A nuclear-armed Iran would be more aggressive & crisis-prone, risking a regional nuclear war. I explain here: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/iran/2012-07-17/iran-and-bomb … 15/pic.twitter.com/YWFRvAZ6a3
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(For the nerds, note that this prediction is strongly supported by the political science lit. See my disc here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/07/09/how-worried-should-u-s-policymakers-be-about-nuclear-blackmail/?utm_term=.68a80b8970c7 …) 16/
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A lot of non-nerds read your tweetstorms, right? :)
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