FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is expected to refuse to certify that Tehran is complying with the 2015 international nuclear agreement, as part of a broader policy change on Iran to be set out as early as next week, people familiar with the deliberations said.
That move would place key decisions about the future of the nuclear deal before Congress, which could move to reinstate sanctions under an expedited 60-day review process…
A senior administration official said Mr. Trump has decided on a strategy to confront Iran’s ballistic-missile development, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, the country’s shipping of weapons as well Iranian behavior that the administration believes destabilizes the region. But the president hasn’t made a final decision on whether to decertify Iran’s compliance, and if so, under what grounds, the senior official said.
His national security team completed a monthslong policy review in September and Mr. Trump approved it, the official said.”
-Felicia Schwartz, “Trump Expected to Refuse to Certify Iran’s Compliance With Nuclear Deal,” The Wall Street Journal online, Oct. 5, 2017 08:43pm