Washington's concerns with the Iran nuclear deal 10/12/2017 10:11:07 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print Iran nuclear deal under administrators of President Trump WASHINGTON, AFP, 12 October 2017  - Under US President Donald Trump, Washington's doubts about the virtues of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal have risen back to the surface of policy debate. The accord still has many fierce supporters, particularly among veterans of Barack Obama's former administration, but the views of anti-Iran hawks have gained ground. Washington's European allies and even some of Trump's most senior American advisers still think the deal is the best way to curtail Iran's nuclear ambitions. But Trump's willingness to cast aside Washington foreign policy orthodoxy and denunciate the accord as an 'embarrassment' have opened space for counter arguments. These are the main concerns of the deal's critics: - The 'sunset clause...

Trump's New Policy Will Focus on Iran's Meddlers The centerpiece of Trumps new Iran strategy will be the designation of Irans Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization Designating the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization could put pressure on the regime. By Eli Lake Bloomberg, October 4, 2017  - After more than nine months in office, President Donald Trump finally has an Iran policy. Last month before the opening of the U.N. General Assembly,  Trump  approved the long-awaited strategy to deal with Iran, according to administration officials. These officials tell me it will outline a new aggressive approach to countering Iranian threats all over the globe and endeavor to use the leverage of Trump's threats over the Iran nuclear deal, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, to spur U.S. allies to begin to address its flaws. On Wednesday at a press conference to dispel news reports that he considered quitting his post ove...

US in contact with N. Korea, probing willingness to talk: Tillerson 10/1/2017 9:38:18 AM US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Chinese President Xi Jinping before their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on September 30, 2017 AFP, Sep. 30, 2017  - The United State has open channels of communication with North Korea and is investigating whether the regime is ready to enter talks on giving up its nuclear weapons programme, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Saturday. Tillerson's disclosure follows an escalating war of words between US President Donald Trump and North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Un. 'We are probing, so stay tuned,' he told reporters after talks with Chinese officials in Beijing. 'We ask. We have lines of communication with Pyongyang. We're not in a dark situation, a blackout, we have a couple, three channels open to Pyongyang.' 'We can talk to them, we do talk to them,' he said. Asked whether...