Bakari Sellers: Middle East Is on Fire Because Donald Trump’s Withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal

BERMAN: “I mean, there’s theater there, Bakari, but it is an interesting political situation where you do have some of the most conservative supporters of President Trump now in some vague agreement with some members of the Democratic Party. I wonder how Democrats navigate this.”
SELLERS: “Well, I mean, I think first and foremost, Shermichael was right on the point that we have to support our ally Israel, and there is a way to do that strategically. I think that when you’re talking about Iran getting closer to a nuclear weapon, that should terrify us all. But the fact is we had an agreement in place in 2015 and Iran was in compliance with that agreement and they were further away from nuclear capabilities than they are today. Bibi Netanyahu and MBS convinced Donald Trump — it was an easy mode to convince him — to pull out of the nuclear agreement. And when he did that, Iran is now moving further and further towards a nuclear weapon. That’s a fact. By pulling out of the Iran nuclear agreement, we’re here now where you have to make a decision about are we going to put U.S. Military boots on the ground? The answer to that is no. Since Donald Trump has gotten elected, the Middle East is on fire — as we have images on the split screen now — the Ukrainian-Russian war has gotten further out of hand. And these were things that he was going to solve on day one, but have become more and more complicated in his leadership. We had an opportunity to have a diplomatic resolution to this, but Bibi Netanyahu, MBS, and Donald Trump made the decision that was not in American interest to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement. And here we are.”