White House Seeks Leverage in Decertification of Iran Deal

President Donald Trump’s much-anticipated decertification of the Iran nuclear deal would hand the problem off to Congress, setting off a 60-day countdown for lawmakers to decide whether to re-impose sanctions — and leaving the accord in limbo.

Trump will not certify the Iran nuclear deal because the agreement is not in the national security interests of the U.S., according to a Washington Post report on Thursday. But he won’t recommend that Congress re-impose sanctions immediately.

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“I imagine there will be a fair amount of congressional activity even if there is a decision not to reinstate sanctions by the leadership,” said Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and head of its Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance.

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