Tillerson: Iran nuclear deal must change if US to stay

The Iran nuclear deal must be changed if the United States is to remain in it, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday, suggesting its key limits on the Iranian nuclear program must be extended.

He said the “sunset” clauses, under which some of the deal’s restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program expire from 2025, were of particular concern.

“If we’re going to stick with the Iran deal there has to be changes made to it. The sunset provisions simply is not a sensible way forward. It’s just simply ... kicking the can down the road again for someone in the future to have to deal with,” he added.

"Unfortunately, this is what [U.S.] governments in the past did with North Korea," he said. "They just simply entered into agreements that were short-lived or were easily cheated on".

Tillerson told Fox News that "the president really wants to redo that deal," but admitted that the U.S. would need "the support, I think, of our allies, the European allies and others, to make the case ... to Iran that this deal really has to be revisited."