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Trump “threw a fit” when his advisers tried to change his mind on Iran

Donald Trump “threw a fit” when top military advisers tried to persuade him not to scrap the Iran nuclear deal, according to a report in the Washington Post Wednesday.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis defended the 2015 accord during a July meeting at the White House, counseling Trump to keep the deal.

“He was furious. Really furious. It’s clear he felt jammed,” a source told the Post.

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Trump raged at Tillerson and Mattis, forcing national security adviser H.R. McMaster to suggest a compromise whereby Trump could refuse to certify the deal but let Congress decide whether to reimpose sanctions, the report said.

Trump is expected to announce this week the agreement with Iran is not in U.S. national interests.

In a Wednesday Fox News interview with Sean Hannity, Trump called the international agreement the “most incompetently drawn” deal he’s ever seen, adding that “we got nothing” out of it.

“They got a path to nuclear weapons very quickly, and think of this one — $1.7 billion in cash — this is cash out of your pocket,” Trump said.

The $1.7 billion paid to Iran was actually a decades-old debt from before the Iranian Revolution.

On Wednesday McMaster briefed lawmakers on the latest White House position. Several officials at the briefing told NBC Trump plans to decertify, despite appeals from the international community.

British Prime Minister Theresa May is the latest world leader to urge Trump to back the deal. In a Wednesday phone call, she told the president the accord is “vitally important for regional security.”

Last month Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told NBC that any decertification would have consequences. “No one will trust America again,” he said.