The senator from New Jersey said he would try to craft a new agreement to address international concerns over the Islamic Republic's nuclear capability.
Sen. Cory Booker stood out among 10 contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination during Wednesday night’s debate by saying that he would not recommit the U.S. to the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran.
President Barack Obama viewed the deal as a signature accomplishment, and most of Booker’s rivals in the Democratic field have publicly said they want to reverse President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the agreement in May 2018.
More hawkish Trump officials and critics of Iran in the U.S. and abroad, notably Israel and Saudi Arabia, have celebrated the apparent demise of the deal and Washington’s new appetite for confrontation with Iran. Still, though Booker’s position on the deal places him apart from most others in the 2020 field, his general campaign pitch for now downplays the prospect of conflict. And it’s increasingly common for foreign policy experts to argue that it simply won’t be feasible for the next president to rejoin the agreement as it is because of the way tension between Iran and the U.S. has continuously grown under Trump and how close the end to certain limits on Iranian activity will be come 2021.
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