Today, because America negotiated from a position of strength and principle, we have stopped the spread of nuclear weapons in this region.

Because of this deal, the international community will be able to verify that the Islamic Republic of Iran will not develop

a nuclear weapon.

This deal meets every single one of the bottom lines that we established when we achieved

a framework earlier this spring.

Every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cut off.

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President Barack Obama's 2015 Iran deal was a feat of careful diplomacy.

An agreement reached with a regime that numerous presidents before him had tried to rain in unsuccessfully.

But just three years later,

President Obama's successor pulled out of that deal. Now here we are, eight years after that,

and Donald Trump has reached a new agreement with Iran when he is touting is better,

yet that does not seem to be the conclusion of anyone else who has examined it. Criticisms of Donald Trump's

Iran agreement are coming in quickly and loudly from every single direction on the ideological

spectrum in our country. Take a listen to how people on the right see it.

They're better off than they were before the hostilities began, and that should not be the consequence of war.

The regime has not changed.

They're just richer.

If they down blend, that means they can upblend and just bring it back to weapons grade.

So if it stays in there, it's not acceptable for anyone that wants to make sure they don't have a,

they want to make sure they have a nuclear weapon. Bill, it's a terrible deal. I mean, we have to wait

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