Remember when journalists swooned over Obama's Iran nuclear deal?

Eight years ago this week, the liberal media touted the “major victory” of President Obama’s “historic” deal with Iran that would supposedly limit the terrorist state’s access to nuclear weapons for at least a decade. But despite the media cheerleading, the deal was widely unpopular with the American public, and bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate voting their disapproval.

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Because Congress would have rejected the deal if it was presented as a treaty, Obama’s “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” (JCPOA, in diplomatic-speak) was merely an executive agreement between the nations. That gave Obama’s successor, President Donald Trump, full authority to revoke the deal on his own, which he did in May 2018, triggering fierce media condemnations.

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