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Amb. Nikki Haley: ‘You’re Going to See Us Stay’ in Iran Nuclear Deal
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, on Sunday said it’s the administration’s hope that America stays with the Iran nuclear deal if Congress takes action to keep it together.
“I think right now you are going to see us stay in the deal,” she said during an interview on NBC’s “Meet The Press.”
“What we hope is that we can improve the situation,” she added. “And that’s the goal. So I think right now, we’re in the deal to see how we can make it better. And that’s the goal. It’s not that we’re getting out of the deal. We’re just trying to make the situation better so that the American people feel safer.”
Full Haley: On Iran ‘I Think You Are Going to See Us Stay in the Deal’
On Friday, President Trump declined to certify that Iran was in compliance of the 2015 agreement, and threatened to terminate it if Congress does not strengthen it.
Haley has been a long-time harsh critic of the agreement, and was one of the few voices in the Trump administration to encourage the president to declare Iran in violation.
“What we’re trying to say is, ‘Look, the agreement was an incentive. The agreement was for you to stop doing certain things,'” Haley added. “You haven’t stopped doing certain things. So what do we do to make Iran more accountable so that they do?”
President Trump will be working “very closely with Congress,” she said, “to try and come up with something that is more proportionate.”
Haley also cited North Korea as an example of the kind of situation they’re trying to avoid with Iran, saying “the whole reason we are looking at this Iran agreement is because of North Korea.”
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Sunday also said the U.S. plans to “stay in” the agreement.
“The issue with the Iran agreement is, it does not achieve the objective,” he said on CNN. “It simply postpones the achievement of that objective. And we feel that that is one of weaknesses under the agreement, so we’re going to stay in. We’re going to work with our European partners and allies to see if we can’t address these concerns, which are concerns of all of us.”
Haley on Sunday also didn’t specifically deny tensions with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during an interview on Sunday’s “Meet The Press,” but did try to distance herself from it.
Last week, a White House official told Politico that escalating friction between the two appeared to be reaching “World War III” proportions” — following NBC News exclusive reporting that Tillerson had called Trump “moron.“
“That is just so much drama,” she said of the report. “I mean, it’s really, it’s all this palace intrigue.”
Haley added that she feels “every member of the NSC [National Security Council]” works hard to put options on the table for the president, and that they share the common goal of keeping Americans safe.
But, she added, “I am glad to be living in New York just for that reason, is that I don’t want to be near the drama and I don’t want to be near the gossip.”
#1 by Gwaredd Thomas on 10/15/2017 – 9:34
“Trumpsksy and Halsky have got this Nietzschean idea they’re for real ubermensch. About the only world leader that has supported Trumpsky in all of his crazy manifestos have been—drum roll and you guessed it, amigo— Mr nut case himself Netanyahoo!?. Let’s just say that Putin, Kim, the EU bunch, the Iranians and just about everybody else who is a foreign politician wonders why his doctor doesn’t him put back in acute psych lockup and smother him with magnum doses of Thorazine while the world awaits nuclear Armageddon”.
#2 by guerrilla77 on 10/15/2017 – 9:34
Haley would’ve liked that no doubt, her being a Zionist co-conspirator (pro Israel, anti BDS and supporter of anti BDS legislation). But it’s too late now because Trump just decertified the “deal.” While anything anyone does to say a huge “F**k you” to the UN is alright with me, I don’t think Trump cares about ‘terrorists’ or Iran’s nuclear capabilities. To tell the truth, I don’t know what his/their game is. He continues to support Israel (at least lip service support). On one hand he’s got super Zionist princess Haley and the other super anti Israel war pig H.R. Puffinstuff McMaster (at least that’s what he’s said but as we all know ‘talk is cheap’). Maybe that is the game; confusion and obfuscation. Anyway, death to Israel is my slogan.
#3 by NLG on 10/16/2017 – 9:34
Is there anyone who seriously believes that the Jewish-owned legislative branch of the US government is NOT going to “decertify” an international agreement? After all, it was they who concocted this “decertification” process to begin with; it was they who, illegally, hosted Netanyahu’s visit to speak before Congress, while they clapped like seals, so that he could personally lobby AGAINST the US president (Obama). And what incentive would the DPRK have to make a deal with ANYONE after this? And since when should N. Halley’s words at the UN be taken at face value? It doesn’t really matter whom we elect. The Jews rule, either way.
#4 by Popcicle on 10/16/2017 – 9:34
The U.S. will now be just like the Jewish State in just ignoring agreements. What message will that send to the rest of the world? It will let them know that we are not to be taken at face value any longer. The entire world will know that the U.S. is the puppet for the Zionist snakes and cannot be trusted in any agreement forever after. Oh how the U.S. has fallen into the Jew trap and ceased to be a united nation of states. We are now a fully fledged nation that has no value to anyone but the Israeli state of war criminals.