The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikky Haley said that Washington hopes to remain in the nuclear deal with Iran, but is also trying to strengthen it so that the “American people feel safer,” New York Post reports.
“I think now you are going to see us stay in the deal. What we hope is that we can improve the situation. And that’s the goal… It’s not that we are getting out of the deal. We are just trying to make the situation better so that the American people feel safer,” Haley said for NBC.
The ambassador was one of those officials who were pushing President Donald Trump not to certify the deal so that it could weigh a proportionate response to Tehran and to send a message to North Korea.
“What we are trying to say is: Look, the agreement was an incentive. The agreement was for you to stop doing certain things. You haven’t stopped doing certain things. So what we do to make Iran more accountable so that they do?” Haley said.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the administration will stay put and added that Trump wants a more comprehensive strategy on Iran which would address matters beyond the nuclear issue, like the support for terror groups and sowing instability in Syria and Yemen.
On the other side, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster thinks that the president is not ready to leave the deal, but, according to him, Iran is not a trustworthy regime. On Friday, Trump announced that he will not certify the agreement and blasted Iran for supporting terror groups like Hezbollah and Hamas ad destabilizing Syria and Yemen, but did not scrap the deal, instead sent it to the Congress and gave lawmakers 6-months deadline to impose new sanctions.
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