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President Donald Trump will take up the issue of the Iran nuclear deal during a meeting with senior US military officials at the White House Thursday evening. According to the president, Iran has not lived up to the "spirit" of the international agreement.President Donald Trump will take up the issue of the Iran nuclear deal during a meeting with senior US military officials at the White House Thursday evening. According to the president, Iran has not lived up to the "spirit" of the international agreement.
Trump sat beside his chief of staff, John Kelly, and Defense Secretary James Mattis, both former Marine Corps generals, along with a group of senior US military officials Thursday night, where the president told reporters that "We must not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons."
Iran, he said, has not "lived within the spirit of the deal."
"We will be discussing tonight," he added.
"The Iranian regime supports terrorism and exports violence, bloodshed and chaos across the Middle East. That is why we must put an end to Iran's continued aggression and nuclear ambitions," Trump said.
Trump did not comment on whether he would re-certify the Iran deal, but teased reporters by saying: "You'll be hearing about Iran very shortly."
The president's deadline for certification of the Iran deal is October 15. If he chooses to de-certify, the issue of whether the US stays within the international framework goes to Congress.
Trump included Iran in a list of "challenges we should've taken care of a long time ago," which also included North Korea, Afghanistan and the Islamic State terrorist group.
On Tuesday, Mattis contradicted Trump, saying the US should remain in its nuclear agreement with Iran, which he said has been “compliant” with the deal.
"I believe that they [Iran] fundamentally are [in compliance]. There have been certainly some areas where they were not temporarily in that regard, but overall our intelligence community believes that they have been compliant and the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] also says so," Mattis said during a House of Representatives hearing.