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Now welcome to this episode of the award-winning best of left podcast in which we shall learn

about the context and history that preceded the US cancellation of the Iran nuclear agreement

and the role Benjamin Netanyahu has played throughout.

Clips today come from democracy now, citations needed, intercepted, start making sense,

and the Ralph Nair radio hour.

European nations are scrambling to save the landmark nuclear agreement with Iran one day after

President Trump announced he would pull the United States out of the deal and reimpose

sanctions on Iran.

We have also consulted with our friends from across the Middle East.

We are unified in our understanding of the threat and in our conviction that Iran must

never acquire a nuclear weapon.

After these consultations, it is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear

bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement.

The Iran deal is defective at its core.

If we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen.

In just a short period of time, the world's leading state sponsor of terror will be on the

cuss of acquiring the world's most dangerous weapons.

Therefore, I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear

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