Jeb Bush Ducks on Whether He Would Keep Obama’s Iran Deal in Place

GANGEL: "Let's talk about Iran. You have said that you would oppose the Iran nuclear deal."
BUSH: "Yeah."
GANGEL: "Would President Jeb Bush cancel it?"
BUSH: "I would confront Iran's ambitions in the region. I would focus on --"
GANGEL: "What is that mean?"
BUSH: "That means that we shouldn't allow for the gaining of influence in Syria and Iraq and Yemen and Lebanon as they have done. I would do everything in my power to assure that our European allies wouldn't make major investments in Iran, including the possibility of reinstating U.S. sanctions, which won't have the same impact as European sanctions directly on Iran, but we'll have an impact on European companies that are considering investing and they have to choose. Will they go to the country that has the rule of law, the largest market in the world, great, you know, great relationships already, or will they go partnering with the Iranian revolutionary guard to suppress the people of Iran? And, so, and then we need to be vigilant as it relates to the actual agreement. The problem with this agreement is that it only deals with one element and there's no assurance that there's the verification procedures to give anybody confidence. And then on top of that you're lifting sanctions to allow them to continue to be aggressively pursuing their strategy as state-sponsored terrorism."
GANGEL: "Any way you would have agreed to that deal?"
BUSH: "Never. I wouldn't have -- yeah, I take it back, excuse me. I would have agreed to the deal that President Obama said was the purpose or the basis of the deal, which was to assure that Iran would never, ever have the capability of building a nuclear bomb but he abandoned that. He abandoned that and that's the tragedy of this. And I believe we also should have included the larger, the equally important issues of their sponsor of Hezbollah. Their sponsor of, you know, propping up Assad, which has created the brutality of 250,000 deaths."