GOP Candidate Say They Would Nix Iran Deal

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Republicans in their first presidential debates said they would undo the Iran nuclear deal.
“What happened in Iran is a disgrace and it’s going to lead to destruction in huge parts of the world,” Donald Trump, the real estate magnate leading in the polls, said Thursday In the second of two debates broadcast by Fox from Cleveland and billed collectively as the first GOP debate in the 2016 election season.
Among the 17 candidates vowing to kill the deal were former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
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