LIEBERMAN: Trump's Election 'Represents a Sea Change' in US Policy toward Iran

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Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, an opponent of the Iran nuclear deal, predicts a "sea change" for US policy toward Iran, but hopes that President Donald Trump doesn't rip up the deal entirely. Lieberman, who is the head of an advocacy group called United Against Nuclear Iran that opposes the deal, said Trump's presidency might be a good opportunity for the US to renegotiate the 2015 agreement with Iran that places restrictions on its nuclear program for a period of time in exchange for sanctions relief. "When it comes to Iran and relations with the United States, the Trump election represents a sea change from the Obama administration, which negotiated the Iran nuclear agreement, did everything it could to defend it and protect it, did everything it could to really encourage a certain number of banks and others to do business in Iran, to a new president who's castigated this agreement as a terrible agreement, has even threatened to tear it up," Lieberman, who spent 24 years in the Senate and chaired the Homeland Security Committee, told Business Insider in an interview last week. Lieberman would like to see the deal renegotiated.