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RFL/RE – U.S. President Donald Trump has blasted Iran, calling it a “rogue regime” run by “fanatical” leaders, but stopped short of pulling the United States out of a landmark 2015 nuclear accord signed with global powers.
Trump, speaking in his long-awaited October 13 Iran-policy speech, also announced new sanctions against Iran’s hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) under the global terrorism executive order, something many observers had speculated on and which Tehran warned would bring a “proportionate response” from its side.
Although he did not pull out of the nuclear deal, Trump slammed Tehran for what he says are violations of the “spirit” of the accord, in part for its continued testing of ballistic missiles and its support for extremists in the Middle East.
To neutralize Iranian actions in the region, Trump said he was calling on Congress to toughen a separate U.S. law — known as the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA) — that runs alongside the nuclear deal and was passed by Congress in response to the international nuclear agreement.
U.S. officials said Trump would ask lawmakers to set “firm trigger points” related to its nuclear and ballistic-missile programs that should Tehran cross would immediately and automatically reimpose sanctions against Iran.
Congress will have 60 days to consider any amendments.
