Is Trump Stuck With an Iran Deal He Loathes?

As a new year’s wave of street protests rocks Iran, the demonstrations put President Donald Trump in an awkward bind—right as he faces a new deadline to decide whether to continue with the Iran nuclear deal he loathes.

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“Prediction: Waivers will be issued, decertification will be made again,” said Mark Dubowitz, head of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a key outside adviser to the Trump administration on Iran. Like others, he expects a move on Capitol Hill for new legislation revisiting the deal as well as additional sanctions to punish the Iranian government for its latest crackdown, and the bipartisan leadership of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was consulting last week with the White House on what language would look like.

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