# Netanyahu: we caught Iran red-handed!

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**Created:** [April 30, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netanyahu-we-caught-iran-red-handed/813373 "2018-04-30T20:05:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netanyahu-we-caught-iran-red-handed/813373/166 "2018-05-10T17:15:24Z")

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> [@Richard\_Parker](#):
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> It’s interesting to me that a lot of #NeverTrump types have taken to defending Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran deal by saying that Obama should have made it a treaty. Evidently, they don’t want to try to defend the action on its merits (because it doesn’t have much in the way of merits).
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> Among other flaws in that process argument, there is the little problem that the Bush Administration successfully got the Supreme Court to recognize Article II power to abrogate non-self-executing treaties. So Trump could have done the same thing regardless of whether this was ratified as a treaty.

I’ve seen that too - “It’s Obama’s fault that Trump pulled out of the deal because it wasn’t a treaty!”

:rolleyes:

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