Trump rips Democrat for comparing him to Obama over Iran
'Tell phony Democrat Senator Chris Coons that I am not offering Iran Anything unlike Obama, who paid them $Billions under the stupid 'road to a Nuclear Weapon JCPOA (which would now be expired!), nor am I even talking to them since we totally Obliterated their Nuclear Facilities,' Trump wrote in a post on his social media site Truth Social just before 3:00 AM Monday.
Coons suggested during a Fox News Sunday interview with anchor Shannon Bream that 'President Trump, by press accounts, is now moving towards negotiation and offering an Iran a deal that looks somewhat similar to the Iran deal that was offered by Obama.'
During the NATO summit last week, the president said the U.S. would meet with Iran regarding a potential agreement on the nuclear weapons program that the U.S. just attacked, but he also downplayed the need for a formal deal.
According to Coons, the alleged deal is once again 'tens of billions of dollars of incentives and reduced sanctions in exchange for abandoning their nuclear program.' Under the Iran nuclear deal hatched in 2015 with President Obama, Iran agreed to international monitoring of its nuclear program in exchange for relief from sanctions.
Critics charged that deal allowed Iran significant sanctions relief while only temporarily delaying—rather than permanently preventing—its ability to develop nuclear weapons. Trump took another victory lap Sunday after he ordered the June 21st attacks on Iran's nuclear proliferation sites.
Speaking with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures , Trump said that 'the bomb went through it, like it was butter, like it was absolute butter,' while describing the pinpoint precision with which U.S. Air Force pilots executed the strikes. Trump also doubled down on previous claims that Iran's nuclear sites were in fact obliterated.
'It was obliterated like nobody's ever seen before. And that meant the end to their nuclear ambitions at least for a period of time,' Trump stated on Sunday. A preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment concluded the strikes only set back Iran's nuclear program by a few months and failed to obliterate it as Trump has repeatedly claimed.
Trump said revitalizing their nuclear program is 'the last thing' Iranians would want to do right now as they rebound from the staggering U.S. attacks. Democrats have been attempting to diminish the impact of Trump's attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
Following a classified briefing on Capitol Hill Thursday, Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told reporters that 'we set this program back for months,' further stating 'and that is not obliteration.' Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) blamed 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' for the negative press coverage on the strikes, accusing Democrats of 'rooting for the survival' of Iran's program.
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