Ben Rhodes: Tearing Up Iran Nuke Deal Will Precipitate a Crisis in the Middle East

The next US president would precipitate a crisis in the Middle East and alienate America’s allies if he or she decides to tear up the nuclear deal with Iran, a senior White House official said at the Atlantic Council on June 16.

“The way in which the Iran deal was structured creates enormous disincentives for an incoming president to tear it up,” said Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic communications.

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Image: Tearing up the Iran nuclear deal “just doesn’t seem like a very wise thing to do,” Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic communications, said at the Atlantic Council on June 16. (Atlantic Council/Victoria Langton)