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Trump’s Team Hired Agency to Discredit Obama’s Iran Deal Negotiators

Trump’s Team Hired Agency to Discredit Obama’s Iran Deal Negotiators
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Reports emerged stating that US President Donald Trump's aides hired an "Israeli" private spy agency in an attempt to flesh out any potential incriminating information on officials from his predecessor Barack Obama administration who assisted with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal negotiations.

Trump’s Team Hired Agency to Discredit Obama’s Iran Deal Negotiators

Aides to Trump hired an "Israeli" private intelligence agency to find incriminating information on Obama administration employees who participated in Iran deal negotiations, The Guardian reported.

In further details, Trump's team hired an "Israeli" spy agency the previous year in May to find derogatory information about Obama's deputy national security adviser for strategic communications Ben Rhodes and former Vice-President Joe Biden's deputy national security adviser for strategic communications Colin Kahl in an attempt to compromise the Iran nuclear accord.

The idea behind the move was to discredit those pivotal in selling the agreement, which would make it easier to pull out, The Guardian reported, citing a source familiar with details of the investigation.

The private investigators were tasked with looking into Rhodes and Kahl's political careers and personal lives, checking to see if they might have benefited from the Nuclear Deal, according to documents The Guardian reported to have seen.

There is no information on how deep the hired spies were able to dig, or what became of any possible information unearthed, according to the outlet's sources.

The 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA] commonly known as Iran Nuclear Deal, which stipulated a gradual lifting of sanctions against Iran in exchange for Tehran curbing its nuclear program, was reached by the P5+1 group - Russia, the United States, China, France, the United Kingdom, Germany - and the European Union on July 14.

The International Atomic Energy Association has verified that Iran is upholding its commitments under the accord.

However, Trump has repeatedly criticized the deal during his 2016 election campaign, saying the European Union needed to fix major flaws in it. He now faces the May 12 deadline to waive sanctions on Iran under the agreement.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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