Trump expected to decertify Iran nuclear deal, official says 10/5/2017 10:22:21 PM U.S. President Donald Trump speaks after meeting with police at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., October 4, 2017. WASHINGTON, Reuters, October 5, 2017  -  President Donald Trump is expected to announce soon that he will decertify the landmark international deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program, a senior administration official said on Thursday, in a step that potentially could cause the 2015 accord to unravel. Trump has been weighing whether the pact, which he has called an “embarrassment,” serves U.S. security interests as he faces an Oct. 15 deadline for certifying that Iran is complying with it. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Trump is also expected to roll out a broader U.S. strategy on Iran that would be more confrontational. The Trump administration has frequently c...

Defense Secretary Mattis suggests sticking with Iran nuclear deal U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis testifies before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Political and Security Situation in Afghanistan on Capitol Hill in Washington U.S. October 3 2017 WASHINGTON (Reuters) OCT. 3, 2017  - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Tuesday the United States should consider staying in the Iran nuclear deal unless it were proven Tehran that was not abiding by the agreement or that it was not in the U.S. national interest to do so. Mattis said he supported U.S. President Donald Trump’s review of the agreement curbing Iran’s nuclear program. Trump is weighing whether the deal serves U.S. security interests as he faces a mid-October deadline for certifying that Iran is complying with the pact, a decision that could sink an agreement strongly supported by the other powers that negotiated it. “If we can confirm that Iran is living by the agreement, if we...

Tillerson in China as U.S. presses North Korean economic squeeze U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, center, is escorted by officials as he arrives to a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister BEIJING, Reuters, SEP. 30, 2017 -- U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will hold top-level talks in China on Saturday as the United States looks to tighten an economic squeeze aimed at persuading North Korea to retreat from its nuclear arms and missile programs. The United States sees China as critical to averting a military confrontation with Pyongyang, which is fast advancing toward its goal of developing a nuclear-tipped missile capable of reaching the United States. U.S. officials say Beijing appears increasingly willing to cut ties to North Korea’s economy by adopting U.N. sanctions, after long accounting for some 90 percent of its neighbor’s foreign trade. But to succeed in reaching any kind of diplomatic solution, Tillerson would need to overcome some basic ...