Rick Perry on Monday promised that President Barack Obama’s recent agreement with Iran will go down in flames if the former Texas governor becomes commander-in-chief in 2016.
The Republican, who has not yet made an official bid for the Oval Office, made the pledge to the Citadel Republican Society in the early voting state of South Carolina.
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“Should I run for president, and be so fortunate to be elected, one of my first actions in office would be to invalidate the president’s Iran agreement, which jeopardizes the safety and security of the free world,” said Perry, adding the deal “enables” a nuclear Iran.
“No agreement is better than a bad agreement,” he also told cadets at the historic military college.
Several potential GOP presidential candidates, including Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, have also criticized the deal. The negotiations between the U.S., allies and Iran resulted in a framework that will allow reductions in sanctions on Iran in exchange for the country relinquishing the means to make nuclear weapons. The countries set a June 30 deadline to hammer out the details.








