John Kerry — the nation's Secretary of State when the Iran nuclear deal was negotiated — defended the agreement in a series of tweets Tuesday amid suggestions President Donald Trump might withdraw from the pact.
Kerry also tried to counter remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natnayahu in which he pointed to evidence Iranian officials were lying about their nuclear ambitions in the lead-up to the deal.
"Every detail PM Netanyahu presented [Monday] was every reason the world came together to apply years of sanctions and negotiate the Iran nuclear agreement – because the threat was real and had to be stopped. It's working!" Kerry tweeted.
"That's why Israeli security experts are speaking out," said Kerry, referring to a letter signed by former Israeli officials and published by the liberal-leaning advocacy group J Street as evidence of Israeli security experts speaking out, CNN reported.
To "blow up the deal" could cost the international community visibility into Iran's nuclear program, he argued.
It is Kerry's first strong public defense of the deal since Trump took office, CNN reported.
Earlier Tuesday, another former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, told "CBS This Morning" it would not be "the end of the world" if the administration pulls out of the deal.
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