by Dave Flessner, Times Free Press - President-elect Donald Trump, who vowed on the campaign trail to rip
up the Iranian nuclear treaty, should do more to enforce the agreement
rather than discard it right away, U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said
Monday.
Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a
critic of the deal that outgoing President Barack Obama negotiated with
Tehran leaders last year, said he expects the incoming Trump
administration should and will do more to police what he said were
ongoing violations of the pact by the Iranian government. But since the
U.S. government and its allies have already returned billions of dollars
of once-frozen assets to Iran, Corker cautioned against reneging on the agreement once Trump is sworn into office in January.
"I don't think that [throwing out the deal) is a very good place to
start," Corker told reporters in his hometown of Chattanooga. "If you
tear the agreement up on the front end, it's almost like cutting your
nose off to spite your face because they already have assess to all of
their dollars." (link)
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