President Trump gives remarks on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action - Live video

President Trump gives remarks on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, (AKA The Nuclear Deal), at 1800GMT today.  

Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is an international agreement on the nuclear program of Iran reached in Vienna on 14 July 2015 between Iran, the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States—plus Germany), and the European Union. 

However, Trump, as part of his campaign pledges, has threatened to take an axe to the deal, stating it was the 'worst deal ever'.

Trump has long criticized the nuclear accord, which was forged under President Barack Obama saying that Trump the deal did not address Iran’s missile program nor the meddling in other nations. 

Trump also has complained that it freed up Iranian money abroad for military purposes and said “sunset clauses” in the deal will let the country resume some uranium enrichment after 2025, setting the stage for a nuclear weapons program.  "In seven years, that deal will have expired, and Iran will be free to make nuclear weapons," Trump said.

Antagonising the status quo ahead of the May 12 deadline set by U.S. law, Israel presented intelligence that Iran has been breaking the deal by developing a nuclear weapons armoury. An Israeli official said that they revealed the trove as timed to follow Macron's and Merkel's meetings with Trump ahead of that decision on the nuclear deal. European countries pushed back against this propaganda, saying the documents underlined the importance of keeping it. 

Trump last agreed to waive the sanctions in January, but his frustration with the agreement has only grown since then. He reluctantly waived a raft of sanctions against Iran as required by Congress every 120 days, but said “this is a last chance” and asked “European countries to join with the United States in fixing significant flaws in the deal.”

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