Fmr. Nat’l Secy. Council Official: I Give Extremely High Marks to Trump and His National Security Team

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MCGURK: “And just finally, as we look to diplomacy, there has been so much back-channel diplomacy going on over the last week, and it‘s my understanding now that the negotiation that will probably start with Iran fairly soon has a bit of a deadline, because the Europeans are prepared to use a power called snapback. They can snapback all international sanctions between now and October, but they have to do it by August. That power expires under UN Security Council resolution put in place with the jcpoa, the Obama era deal, and the Europeans are saying it‘s my understanding that if Iran thinks that it is going to maintain a secret stash of highly enriched uranium, or it‘s going to threaten to leave the npt, they are prepared to snapback sanctions. So the diplomacy has a bit of a deadline. Look, bottom line, this is about the best place we can be. I give extremely high marks to this national security team and President Trump for managing this crisis. And given where we are. But now let‘s follow through. There‘s a chance for diplomacy here, not only on the Iran side, but also in Gaza. Those talks are also going on back-channel in cairo. There‘s a Hamas delegation there. Try to get that cease fire in place, and you can come out of this in a place that is far better than we would have anticipated 10 nights ago.”