Trump Ditches Iran Nuclear Deal

Trump Ditches Iran Nuclear Deal by Bill Wilson
The Iranian-backed Houthi movement fired missiles over Saudi Arabia from Yemen. Israel's military says it identified irregular activity by Iranian forces in Syria, causing bomb shelters in the Golan Heights to be opened to citizens.

Iranian lawmakers did the same thing in response to President Donald Trump pulling out of the Iranian nuclear deal as they did when the previous president entered the deal-burn the American flag and shout "Death to America."

Sounds like a pretty normal day in the Middle East--Islamic led violence against Israel and Islamists trying to kill Islamists with whom they don't agree. What's not normal is that the United States is no longer part of empowering the foremost sponsor of terrorism-Iran.

AP reports, "Israel's prime minister is praising President Donald Trump for withdrawing the U.S. from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Benjamin Netanyahu called Trump's decision Tuesday an "historic move." He says leaving the Iran deal unchanged would be "a recipe for disaster, a disaster for our region, a disaster for the peace of the world."

Netanyahu is a leading critic of the deal, saying it did not contain sufficient safeguards to prevent Iran from reaching nuclear-weapons capability or address Iran's other activities across the region. He says Iran's aggression has grown since the deal, especially in Syria, where he says it is "trying to establish military bases to attack Israel.""

Siding with Russia's response, AP reports that the previous US president who signed the infamous Iran deal, "is calling President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Iran deal a "serious mistake" that will erode America's global credibility. ... He said Tuesday that Trump's decision to withdraw is "misguided," especially because Iran has been complying.

"The consistent flouting of agreements that our country is a party to risks eroding America's credibility, and puts us at odds with the world's major powers." AP reported the ex president claiming that without the deal, the U.S. "could eventually be left with a losing choice between a nuclear-armed Iran or another war in the Middle East.""

Let's look at the obvious. Iran has used the $100 billion the ex US president shipped it on pallets to foment war and terrorism, and according to Netanyahu's documentation, continue its nuclear and missile development program.

The ex president, who started all this current unrest with his support of the Arab Spring revolutions across the Middle East, says without the Iranian deal the US would be faced with a choice of a nuclear Iran or another Middle East war.

Wow. Isn't that the same choice as with his Iran agreement intact?

While the world is worried over the fallout of America abandoning the Iran nuclear deal, we should be more concerned that America is aligned with God's position in the Middle East. Psalm 122:6 says, "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love you." That's a good place to start.