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Obama had Iran’s nuclear program under control — until Trump tore it up, according to Senator Tim Kaine.“Well, look, I want the ceasefire to hold. I want it to be extended. I want it to be permanent. But the fact that the U.S. is now negotiating to reopen the Straits of Hormuz, it was open before the war. The U.S. is trying to get a negotiation done to control Iran’s nuclear program. It was controlled under the Obama administration until President Trump tore up a diplomatic deal. And many of us told him at the time, if you make diplomacy impossible, you will make war inevitable. And so now U.S. troops are dying, others are being injured, civilians are being injured. And now we’re trying to have a negotiation to return to a status quo that we had with diplomacy. This is not only an illegal war. It’s an incredibly foolish one. And I’ve got Virginians paying a dollar more at the pump every time they get a gallon of gas. We buy 8 million gallons of gas a day in Virginia. That’s $8 million a day that we are spending that we weren’t before this war. And that’s happening all over the United States and all over the world. So, look, I’m glad they’re negotiating. They’ve gone in and destroyed all the china in the china shop. And now they’re talking with the owner of the shop about, well, maybe we should talk about how to put it back together. You shouldn’t have destroyed it without a plan to begin with.”