This Is the ‘Calm Before the Storm’

U.S. President Donald Trump intends to announce the cancellation of the nuclear deal with Iran next week, the Washington Post newspaper reported.

“You guys know what this represents”, Trump asked the press as he pointed around the room, another journalist wrote of the incident.

The White House has not yet clarified what the president intended by his “calm before the storm” remark.

“What storm Mr. President?” one reporter shouted.

He responded: “You’ll find out”.

After it, president told reporters that “We must not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons”. Tom Cotton around noon Thursday.

Then, Trump gestured to the reporters in the room.

Trump was speaking before a planned dinner with military leaders and their spouses.

After the Thursday meetings Mr. trump posed for the cameras at the White house with his wife Melania and military officials and their wives.

“They have not lived up to the spirit of the agreement”, said Trump, as he huddled with military leaders ahead of perhaps the biggest foreign policy decision of his young presidency.

Trump is likely to announce his plans in a speech next week in which he will say the agreement was not in United States national interest, the officials said.

This could lead to a tense standoff in the Middle East over the Iranian nuclear programme.

During the same hearing, Gen. Joseph Dunford said he believes Iran is not in material breach of the accord, which he believes has delayed Tehran’s nuclear capability.

The Republican president faces an October 15 deadline for certifying that Iran is complying with the deal.

“In North Korea, our goal is denuclearisation”.

At the same time, the US retains sanctions against Iran on the missile program, human rights and on suspicion that Tehran sponsors terrorism.

During the meeting Trump picked out North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, and ISIS as “challenges that we really should have taken care of a long time ago”.

Trump’s secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, and national security adviser, HR McMaster, are both thought to have advised Trump not to withhold certification.

Trump said in Afghanistan he had lifted restrictions and expanded authorities for commanders in the field.