Washington • Sen. Orrin Hatch and others in Utah’s federal delegation backed President Donald Trump’s move Tuesday to withdraw the United States from the Iran nuclear deal, saying the Obama-era accord, negotiated to keep the regime from building nuclear weapons, actually helped Iran to the detriment of the world.
“I applaud the president’s announcement,” Hatch said in a statement Tuesday. “The Iran deal is deeply problematic in substance and design, and for too long, it has been a substitute for any broader U.S. thinking on the region. With our withdrawal from the deal, we can now focus on working together, across the aisle and across the Atlantic, to counter Iran’s malign activities, from its nuclear weapons program to its human rights abuses.