I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.

In a few moments I will sign a presidential memorandum to begin reinstating US nuclear

sanctions on the Iranian regime.

We will be instituting the highest level of economic sanction.

When President Trump announced that the U.S. was going to decertify the Joint comprehensive plan of action, better known as the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and reinstitute sanctions on the country.

One of the reasons he cited for that move was the presentation of new evidence from Israeli intelligence

showing that the Iranians had lied about its nuclear program during the negotiation of that deal.

Last week Israel published intelligence documents long concealed by Iran, conclusively showing

the Iranians regime and its history of pursuing nuclear weapons.

A few weeks ago in a great intelligence achievement, Israel obtained half a ton of the material inside these vaults. And here's

what we got.

55,000 pages.

Another 55,000 files on 183 CDs.

Everything you're about to see

is an exact copy of the original Iranian material. Theatrical props and dramatic rhetoric aside,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neniahoo's recent presentation on the Iranian nuclear deal, in fact contained no new

information.

That Iran had explored a nuclear weapons program prior to 2003 has been known and admitted

for years.

That they have an archive of this information is not a violation of the Iranian nuclear deal completed in 2015.

In fact, if anything, Netanyahu's presentation actually proved the exact opposite of what was intended.

Namely, that Iran is abiding by the terms of that treaty and is not covertly pursuing any nuclear

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