Trump Called Obama’s Iran Deal ‘Horrible’. How 2026 Memorandum Compares

On May 8, 2018, Donald Trump addressed Americans from the White House Diplomatic Reception Room. The 12-minute speech announced the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal his predecessor and arch-rival, Barack Obama, had signed in 2015. Titled the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action”, it was an agreement designed to limit Iran’s nuclear ambitions. “The fact is this was a horrible, one-sided deal that should have never, ever been made. It didn’t bring calm, it didn’t bring peace, and it never will,” Trump said at the time. Eight years later, the US and Iran find themselves in a remarkably similar…