On May 8, President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal, calling the deal “horrible,” “one-sided” and “the worst deal ever.”
The president said he planned to institute sanctions against Iran, and that the U.S. would also sanction any other nation that helps it pursue nuclear weapons, as well as U.S. and foreign companies and banks that continue to do business with Iran.
The Iran Deal was one of President Obama’s major foreign policy achievements, which had re-opened diplomatic negotiations between the two countries; yet the deal also had its critics, both of its merits and its constitutionality.
Joining us to discuss the complex history of Iran-U.S. relations, President Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran Deal, and any constitutional issues implicated as a result are two leading national security and constitutional experts.
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Jamil Jaffer is the founder of National Security Institute and an Adjunct Professor of Law and Director of the National Security Law & Policy Program at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.
Jake Sullivan is a Martin R. Flug Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. He served in the Obama administration as a national security and served as the key architect of the Iran Nuclear Deal.
Jeffrey Rosen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center, the only institution in America chartered by Congress “to disseminate information about the United States Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.”
Related Documents
- Iran Nuclear Deal – Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, July 14, 2015
- The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, Public Law 114-17, 114th Congress, May 22, 2015
- Paris Climate Agreement , United Nations, November 4, 2016
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, United Nations, December 13, 2006
- Law of the Sea Convention, United Nations, December 10, 1982
- New START Treaty– the United States and Federation of Russia on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, April 10, 2010
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