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Angus King: “The most effective confrontation with the threat from Iran…”

Featuring: Angus King, Independent | U.S. Senate Maine

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'Trump Created This Crisis!': Senator Angus King Blasts Centcom Chief Over Iran War

Published | Video Starts at 00:15

I have to do a little myth busting. It's sort of a common rhetoric today that no administration prior to this one has confronted the threats of Iran. In fact, The most effective confrontation with the threat from Iran, the nuclear threat, was during President Obama's administration with the JCPOA. I would point out that at the time that President Trump tore up, unilaterally tore up, the nuclear agreement with Iran, Iran had zero highly enriched uranium. (00:15–00:25)

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Asserts that the JCPOA under President Obama was the most effective confrontation with Iran's nuclear threat.

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