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I commend President Trump for exiting the Obama Iranian nuclear deal and for his commitment to confronting Iran’s "Death to America" regime.

The Obama Iran deal has been a catastrophe.

It gave Iran’s despotic regime the resources to expand across the Middle East, all the way up to the borders of our closest allies in the region, and created an incentive for the international community to turn a blind eye to Iranian military activities and atrocities.

It provided Iran with vast resources that it could funnel into missile tests that could enable them to launch a nuclear weapon on the American homeland.

It prohibited us from using our most powerful sanctions against the full range of Iranian aggression, but only imposed restrictions against some of Iran’s nuclear activities – and even then, only temporarily. As a result, the region is now potentially on the brink of war.

The deal was also unenforceable on its own terms.

It trusted the Iranians to enforce restrictions against themselves, and as a result – as the recent presentation by Israeli Prime Minister @Netanyahu made clear – significant parts of Iran’s nuclear weapons program went undetected.

The terms also included incentives and concessions to sweeten the deal even further for Iran, including placing some of their nuclear activities under international sponsorship.