Iran’s nuclear deal in 2015 was the least diplomatic compact since the 1938 Munich Agreement, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien told The Story on Thursday.
He was responding to remarks by former Secretary of State John Kerry during the proceedings on Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention.
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“John Kerry and the JCPOA [nuclear deal] gave Iran $ 150 billion in sanctions relief. That was the Obama-Biden administration, “O’Brien told host Martha MacCallum. Iran did not spend that money on its own people, not to build a middle class in Iran. They spent it on terrorist activities in Lebanon, and Syria, and Iraq, in Yemen, so the JCPOA was not a big deal. In fact, it was the worst diplomatic deal since the application in Munich in 1938. “
The Munich Agreement, reached by Nazi Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy, allowed Hitler’s troops to annex Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland and is today remembered as a classic case of diplomatic appeasement.
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Trump pulled the US back into the nuclear deal in 2018, provoking criticism from former advisers to President Barack Obama. On Thursday, O’Brien announced that the Obama administration had dropped the ball when it came to fighting ISIS in the Middle East.
“Secretary Kerry’s remarks were ironic in that ISIS was a caliphate the size of Great Britain over Syria and Iraq when he left office,” he said. “The Iran deal contributed to that. The sudden withdrawal of American troops from Iraq struck ISIS, Americans were killed … brutally executed by ISIS, and it took Donald Trump to bring justice to Baghdadi,” he said, referring to earlier ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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“It took Donald Trump to destroy the caliphate of ISIS.”
Since the US left the deal, Iran has attacked the US and participated in various provocations in the region. On Thursday, Tehran unveiled two new missiles, one of which is named after generation Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in an air strike ordered by Trump earlier this year.
