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Prez’s Iran reveal will be TV event

- The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Trump is set to reveal his decision on whether to keep the U.S. in the Iran deal on Tuesday.

The announceme­nt is set to cap more than a year of deliberati­on and negotiatio­n that has at time pitted Trump against some of his closest aides and key American allies.

Trump is facing a self-imposed May 12 deadline over whether to uphold the 2015 nuclear agreement, which he long has criticized. The President has signaled he will pull out of the pact by the deadline unless it is revised, but he faces intense pressure from European allies not to do so.

“I will be announcing my decision on the Iran Deal tomorrow from the White House at 2:00pm,” Trump tweeted Monday.

The President has been the subject of an intense lobbying effort by American allies to maintain the agreement, with British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson making a last-ditch appeal to the administra­tion in a visit to Washington this week. European leaders say that they are open to negotiatin­g a side agreement with Iran, but the existing framework must remain untouched for that to happen.

Trump in October “decertifie­d” the deal with Iran, but did not move to reimpose sanctions, known as a “snap-back.”

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