Marie Harf: Mattis Is Right We Shouldn’t Rip Up the Iran Nuke Deal and Trump Needs to Listen to Him

‘Jim Mattis is right here and the president has a lot of respect for his opinion on a range of issues’

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HARF: "Jim Mattis is right here and I think the President cleaqrly has a lot of respect for his opinion on a whole range of issues and he needs to listen to him here. The fact is that Iran is adhering to the terms of the nuclear deal. Within the 159 pages, they are doing what they said they would do. Now the reason the President doesn’t like it, I think, is because of all the other things Iran is doing: support for terrorism, support for Assad in Syria. There are ways to go after that behavior that don’t involve ripping up a deal that’s working. That’s what I think a lot of people are telling the President. If he walks away and Iran restarts their program, the President owns that decision. That’s a big step."

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