Continue to be a partner in it or should we pull out of it . Heres how you can let us know. 202p 488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. And 2027488002 for independents. If you wish to tweet us about this topic you can do so at cspan wj and facebook. Com cspan. How you post on our facebook page. Secretary of state made comments yesterday specifically towards the deal. It was earlier that he sent a letter to congress about the administrations desire to review the deal and specifically its policy toward iran. Dear dear, mr. Speaker, the letter says. This letter certifies the Atomic Energy act of 1954 amended by the Iran Nuclear Review act by 2015 enacted in may of 2015 are met as of april 18, 2017. Notwithstanding, iran remains a leading state sponsor of terror through many platforms and methods. President trump has directed the National Security councilled interagency review of the joint comprehensive plan of action that will evaluate whether suspension of sanctions related to iran pursuant to the jcpoa is vital to the National Security interest of the United States. The interagency review is completed, the administration looks forward to working with congress on this issue. Again, the administration desiring a review of the nuclear deal. Essentially pulling out of it perhaps. Your thoughts on if that should be the case . Should the u. S. Pull out of the deal that was established by the Obama Administration and other countries. Again, if you want to let us know. 2027488001, republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. And 2027488002 for independents. Well hear more from the secretary of state Rex Tillerson. Iran is the worlds leading state sponsor of terrorism and is responsible for intensifying multiple conflicts and undermining u. S. Interest. In countries such as syria, yemen, iraq, and lebanon, and continuing to support attacks against israel. An unchecked iran has the potential to travel the same path as north korea and take the world along with it. The United States ask keen to avoid a second piece of evidence that strategic patience is a failed approach. The comprehensive iran policy requires that we address all of the threats posed by iran. It is clear there are many. Iran continues to support the brutal assad regime in syria. Prolonging a conflict that has killed approximately half a million syrians and displaced millions more. Iran supports the assad regime even as it commits atrocities against its own people, including with quems. Iran provides arms, financing, and training, and funnels foreign fighters into syria. It is also sent members of the Iran Revolutionary guard to take part in direct combat operations. In iraq, iran provides support to some iraqi militant groups, primarily through the cudes force which has been undermining security in iraq for years. Iran maintains a longstanding hostility towards israel. Providing weapons, training, and oning to hamas and other Palestinian Terrorist organizations. Indeed and in propaganda iran foments discord. Host theres some of the defense by the secretary of state as far as the review of the Iran Nuclear Deal by the u. S. Administration, and we want to get your thoughts on if the u. S. Should still be part of that. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027 488000 for democrats. And independents, 2027488002. Well start with landon, richmond, virginia. Republican line, go ahead. What do you think as far as the u. S. Being part of this deal . Caller well, United States has to be involved with china hold back iran, we got the wrong people thats working on the deal. Tillerson used to work for exxon. The iranians nationalized the Oil Companies doing the iranian crisis. And tillerson working for exxon. It doesnt make too much sense to me what tillerson is doing. Hes made so many mistakes already. He says that host specifically to iran, when you talk about pushback to iran, what do you mean by that . What are your concerns about iran and this nuclear deal . Ller well, i just hope that they wont enrich uranium. The iranians are like americans, they have been involved with america. Nobody really wants a war, nucleartype war. Its nothing much you can do with iran except watch out because the Ottoman Empire is trying to bring itself back again. These people dont know much about history. Host ok, lets hear from tori. In new mexico. Also on our republican line. Hi. Caller hello. Host go ahead. Caller yes, im calling this administration doesnt know what ts doing. Year were in this with five other countries, its not just us by ourselves. They seem to not understand this. If we pull out, the other countries are still in. What are we going to do . Sanction them, too . Host youre saying stay in and then what . Caller iran deal, nuclear deal has nothing to do. Theres two different deals going on. It has nothing to do with terrorists. Yes, stay n stay in. Host thats toris opinion. Shes in new mexico. Give us your thoughts as well. It prompted the decision and announcement yesterday prompted reaction on several fronts. This is the statement from the National IranianAmerican Council saying that today secretary tillerson and the Trump Administration placed the security of the American People and world at great risk. Public statements lambasting the nuclear deal as a failed approach and comparing the country with north korea are reckless and false. It is nothing less than unnerving for the secretary of state to ignore the advice of nearly all security experts, foreign and domestic, on the efficacy of the nuclear deal. This comes one day after the secretary acknowledged that iran was complying with the terms of the deal. Such policy positions have come to define this administration. Lets hear next from mike, fort lauderdale, florida. Democrats line. Caller good morning. I just wanted to make a point that we have so much on our plate right now going on and we have to deal with the iranians. Why not just take our time with that, take care of corea first, and then take care of the take care of corea korea first and then iranians. Host what about the statements the secretary of state was making . Caller i believe korea is more important right now because they are a time bomb waiting to happen. Host liz is next from washington, d. C. , democrats line. Caller thanks for taking my call. My comment is that this deal is about the Nuclear Capability of iran. We have seen every single time that they are in compliance with the terms of that deal, much like during the cold war we did the same thing with the soviets. Stick with it. And then address all the other issues that are side issues. Whats more troubling is that this administration didnt prepare itself by reading all of these things that were now seeing that they are coming back and saying, well, lets have a study. Lets have an interagency look at t lets spend more money to determine that what we already whats already been discussed and negotiated and dealt with very smartly. Its a waste of our taxpayers money. Unfortunate that these voters got bamboozles by a Good Business conartist. Host the reaction from mike mccaul, republican of texas Senior Member of the Foreign Affairs committee, he put out in light of the statement from secretary tillerson. Saying that i have long stated that any nuclear deal that includes sanctions relief without addressing irans support for terrorism and Ballistic Missile testing is a flawed deal not worth the paper its written on. The Iranian Regime is grectly irectly responsible for terror attacks. I applaud the Trump Administration for launching a review on whether continuing to lift sanctions against iran is in the security interest of the u. S. Once this review is complete i look forward to working with the administration to take any additional steps necessary to prevent the worlds leading state sponsor of terror from endangering americans and our allies. Gene is next on our question should the u. S. Pull out of the Iranian Nuclear deal. Hes in houston, texas, republican line. Hi. Caller good morning. I absolutely believe that we should pull out of the iranian deal. Its a farce to begin with. And i believe that it was simply put in place to prevent israel from taking any kind of military action. I know its a very complicated geopolitical thing, but its pretty obvious thats the point. He had a previous caller saying that people were bamboozled voted for this businessman. Thats not the case at all. What really happened is the liberal left got bamboozled by the d. N. C. And chose hillary. But back to the topic. I think we should pull out of this iranian deal and actually use a carrot and stick without a deal that they can break. So we should partner up with israel and take the reins off and let them do whats right for their country. Its a geopolitical world. Maybe trump is not exactly the smartest guy in the world, but i would vote for him 10 times out of 10 times over Hillary Clinton. Host representative don beyer, virginia democrat, in response to the initial review of the deal saying this. Saying off twitter, glad to see the poe tuss changes his mind on the jcpoa. Certified iran is complying with the terms of the iran deal. He adds give peace and diplomacy a chance. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027848002 for independents. Alan is next. Joins us from east chicago, indiana. Democrats line. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan and taking my call. Im totally in favor of staying in on the deal. I think it was at least we were able to talk with the iranians. Not having too much discussion with north korea what they want to do. I also we call them state sponsor of terrorism. One persons terrorism is another persons freedom fire. We do have a history of interfering in our countrys business. The iranians are not children. We cant tell them how to run themselves. Thats us being imperialists. As far as terrorism, they havent hamas, hezbollah, these are the people who are palestinians trying to get their country back. Its not a difficult situation at all. My opinion is not israel, its occupied palestine. China has north korea. Russia has syria. We have israel. All of them are trouble spots. Host off twitter, this is we persist saying that by pulling out now we lose the benefits from the deal. We havent even see yet so why do it . All in caps and question mark. The thought of sean in california, independent line. Caller whats going on, pedro. The way im looking at it is why are we even talking about a nuke already deal in the first place. Do you know how devastating a Nuclear Weapon is . We shouldnt even have them. We shouldnt even be in the spot, hey, man, lets make a deal. Its like why create dinosaurs again. Host were in the deal currently. Hould we stay in it . Sean . Caller we shouldnt. We shouldnt. I dont think we should. I think we shouldnt and we should bail out of our Nuclear Weapons, testing, all that, too. Host lets hear next from gary, moorefield, west virginia. Democrats line. Caller good morning. How you doing. Host fine. Thank you. Caller yeah. Ive got a friend that lives in tehran with his mother. She has m. S. And he is a dual citizen. He is a u. S. Citizen. When he comes home, he tells me whats going on over there. Like you said, everyones wanting to back out of this nuclear thing. If they didnt want us in there to do what they said they were going to do, they would just back out plain out and not let anybody in. They are a people when they say what they are going to do, thats what they are going to do. Dont get them mad because like they said, they do not iranians will not fight against iranians. Thats why they go to the outside and get outside help. If you try going in there, going to be like trying to go into japan during world war ii. The whole country is going to come out. Men, women, and children. They just thats just how they are. It these i know for a fact. You have a great day. Host the Trump Administration, this is some of the analysis of the mechanics of whats going to take place. The nork sometimes reporting the administration has given itself 90 days to complete its review. It will need to make a series of decisions in coming weeks about whether to continue its support of the deal, which was brokered with britain, china, france, germany, and russia. Both governments along with representatives of the United States and iran will meet next week in vienna to review the progress. Mr. Trump faces a mid may deadline whether to continue the suspension of sanctions backing away from the agreement would spur enormous consternation across europe and moscow. Right next to that a statement from senator bob corker, chairman of the Foreign Relations committee on yesterdays announcement, saying that, quote, secretary tillerson made clear that regardless of irans Technical Compliance with the nuclear deal, the administration is under no illusion about the continued threat from tehran and prepared to work closely with congress to push back, making that statement on wednesday. Lets hear from ray. Ray in homestead, pennsylvania, independent line. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Just my own take on this. I think that the United States, trump, is getting ready to go to war with iran. Hes not going to get health care, tax reform package, hes not going to get the wall. Hes going to get nothing that he promised the American People. Typical of any republican, the only way he can divert attention from all the failure is to get into a war. Theres going to be a false flag somewhere along the line, somethings going to happen and its going to be blamed on iran. And a few months from now, i bet we we cant fight syria, they have russia. We cant fight north korea because millions of people will dy. The only country we have left we can fight, that trump can start a war with and take everybodys attention off of his failures, is iran. Look for a false lie. Blamed on iran and a war within six months. Thank you, pedro. Host secretary of state also made further comments about iran and what he perceived as the global threat of that country. Heres a statement from yesterday. Apart from the abuses inside irans own borders, it is the threat it poses to the rest of the world. Irans Nuclear Ambitions are a grave risk to International Peace and security. It is their habit and posture to use whatever resources they have available to unsettle people and nations. With its latest test of a mediumrange Ballistic Missile, irans continued development and proliferation of Missile Technology is in defiance of u. N. Security Council Resolution 2231. And it has previously stated it will conduct a secretary test flight of the space launch vehicle which would put it closer to an operational intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Any discussion of iran is incomplete without mentioning the jcpoa. The jcpoa failstocheeve the objective of a nonnuclear iran. It only delays their goal of becoming a nuclear state. This deal represents the same failed approach of the past that brought us to the current imminent threat we face from north korea. The Trump Administration has no intention of passing the buck to a future administration on iran. Host off twitter, jim says, what benefits do we get from this deal . I thought we were merely removing sanctions. What benefit were we to get . You can make your thoughts on twitter at c spafment wj. Facebook fage at facebook. Com c spap. On the phone lines debi from kentucky. Youre next. Caller hi. Im a democrat and i have been for 55 years, but i feel like that donald trump has went in there and done something that president obama avoided over the past two terms. The past two terms he has led them over there, break the rules, by continuing with their nuclear. And hid that from the American People when i think he knew it all along. And then were turning around and going to pay the consequences because our military has, we have trained those people over there to protect themselves. And its going to come back and bite us in our ass when they turn around and use it on us. Host youre saying with that in mind stay in or get out of the deal . Caller i say pull out because if were going to go to war no matter what, with them. Host Washington Times gives some analysis this morning if you find it online or in print. Saying that the statement suggests, this is a statement from the Trump Administration, that the administration could reimpose sanctions on iran something tehran has said would lead to pull out of the deal. Critics say would allow the Islamic Republic to develop nuclear arms in 10 deals t permits iranian enrichment and calls for snap back sanctions if tie tai ran fails to abide by the terms which are aimed at preventing the development of nuclear arms. The jcpoa restricts Extensive International monitoring to delee claire Nuclear Facilities and calls on iran to permit inspections of any suspicious facilities. They have stymied suspect of sites like the parchin facility not included in the deal. Located 20 miles southeast of tehran was the location for most of irans past nuclear arms related work. It also quotes the c. I. A. Director mike pompeo, a