John Bolton on Iran Deal: ‘It Was Not in America’s Strategic Interest To Enter’ Into It

‘We are going to reimpose sanctions to the maximum extent possible’

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DOOCY: "Fox News alert. Overnight Iranian lawmakers burned U.S. flag in Iranian parliament vowing to increase spending on its ballistic missile program which they've been working on for years, which is all, of course, direct response to president Trump’s announcement pulling out of the nuke deal yesterday."
EARHARDT: "National security adviser John Bolton joins us life from the White House with his reaction. Good morning to you. Congratulations on your new post."
BOLTON: "Thank you."
EARHARDT: "So aside from giving them $150 billion, aside from them burning the American flag, yelling death to America, why was this decision so important."
BOLTON: "Well look, it’s no surprise Iran doesn’t want to change anything in the existing Iran nuclear deal, why should they? They got a wonderful deal from their perspective. In fact, their only regret, I think is they didn’t ask Obama and Kerry for more because they probably would have gotten it. That’s why the president focused on why the deal was fundamentally flawed in his remarks yesterday. And because of that, it was not in America’s strategic interest to enter the deal and it was not in our strategic interest to stay in the deal. So we’re out of it. We are going to reimpose sanctions to the maximum extent possible. We’re going to work with our European allies. We are going to go after other objectionable aspects of Iran’s behavior and we're going to try and reduce this threat in the region and around the world."

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