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How Trump Can Improve the Iran Deal

(Wall Street Journal) Mark Dubowitz and David Albright - There is a way for President Trump to highlight the Iran nuclear deal's egregious deficiencies while showing his determination to improve the Iran nuclear deal or leave it. The president should refuse to certify the deal under the 2015 Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act because its fundamentally flawed architecture makes it too dangerous to continue. By patiently following the deal, Iran can gain nuclear weapons, as well as a nuclear-capable arsenal of missiles giving it regional hegemony and the ability to threaten the U.S. Decertifying doesn't mean breaking the deal. That happens only if the U.S. reimposes sanctions that have been lifted or suspended. The president should designate the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization, as Congress has required he do by Oct. 31. He should also instruct the Treasury to blacklist companies with Revolutionary Guard and military ownership, and should redesignate Iran Air (which is buying planes from Boeing and Airbus) as a terrorist entity for airlifting weapons and fighters to Syria. A brutally repressive and aggressive Iranian regime should not be allowed to have a North Korean-style glide path to dozens of nuclear weapons and ICBMs. Mr. Dubowitz is chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Mr. Albright is president of the Institute for Science and International Security.
2017-09-26 00:00:00
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