Donald Trump will not certify to Congress the nuclear deal with Iran, the "dictatorship" that "trained al Qaeda" and "hid Osama bin Laden", but for the moment he is not withdrawing from the agreement signed with Tehran and the rest of the international community in June 2015. Instead, he asks Congress and allies to negotiate a new one. Otherwise, he said, I will "cancel" the current one. In a speech delivered in the diplomatic reception room at the White House, the American president announced the "new strategy" that Washington will adopt so that Tehran "never, I stress never, obtain nuclear weapons". It is up to Congress to decide - within 60 days - whether to reintroduce the punitive measures and to adopt further sanctions based on the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, the law passed by Congress in May 2015 to assign the House and Senate to review any aspect of the agreement signed over two years ago in Geneva. Trump's was a tirade lasting over eighteen minutes against the "Iranian regime", accused of everything and more, even of having raised and guarded - they, the Shiite ayatollahs - the Sunni terrorists. Iran, Trump said, "is under the control of a fanatical regime that took power in 1979 and obliges the people to submit, a radical regime has destroyed that nation's wealth and brought chaos to the world" . From this point of view, the nuclear deal "is one of the worst things the US has ever signed". That agreement, he stressed, "should have contributed to regional peace, but instead the Iranian regime continues to sponsor terrorism in the Middle East and around the world". Iran, he reiterated, "does not respect the spirit of the agreement". Washington's stated objective is to obtain a new agreement, without canceling the current one for the moment. In this direction, new sanctions will be decided, aimed at individuals and structures linked to the powerful elite of the Guardians of the Revolution and also related to Tehran's missile program. Trump "supports" the congressional initiative, which is working on legislation to strengthen controls on the agreement, but if the parliamentary work fails, "the current agreement will be canceled.
Trump also said on this really frantic day: "I also believe that Iran helped North Korea and then attacked the former American president:" Obama delayed with North Korea and now we have to face the escalation of the showdown on nuclear power.