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Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Top Democratic senator says Trump decision a ‘historic mistake’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the no. 2 Democrat in the Senate, is calling the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal “a mistake of historic proportions.”
He says breaking the Iran deal increases the danger that Iran will restart its nuclear weapons program, which threatens Israel and “destabilizes the entire Middle East.”
Durbin says Trump’s action “isolates the United States from the world at a time when we need our allies to come together to address nuclear threats elsewhere, particularly in Korea.”
Trump said earlier Tuesday that “great things” can happen for the Iranian people because of the US withdrawal. The Republican president predicted that Iranians would someday “want to make a new and lasting deal” and that “when they do, I am ready, willing and able.”
— AP
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