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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: "The Iran Agreement Does Not Achieve the Objective"
(CNN) Jake Tapper - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday: "What the president wants is a more comprehensive strategy to deal with Iran in its totality....We want to deal with the nuclear agreement's weaknesses, but we really need to deal with a much broader array of threats that Iran poses to the region, our friends and allies, and, therefore, threats that they pose to our own national security....Everywhere you look in the region, Iran's activities destabilize the region and threaten others." "This is not about the Iranian people. This is about the regime in Iran, this revolutionary regime that, ever since it came to power, has been intent on killing and harming Americans and harming others in the region." "We want to take the agreement as it exists today, as I said, fully enforce that agreement, be very demanding of Iran's compliance under the agreement, and then begin the process of addressing these flaws that we see around the absence of addressing ballistic missiles, for instance, the concerns we have around the sunset provisions, this phase-out of the agreement....The issue with the Iran agreement is, it does not achieve the objective. It simply postpones the achievement of that objective."