John Oliver buys 'Hannity' air time to run commercial supporting Iran Deal

On May 12th President Donald Trump will have to decide whether to support the current Iran nuclear deal or impose sanctions. And as Last Week Tonight With John Oliver showed, he's not a huge fan of that deal. The deal is complex, but basically it requires Iran not enrich uranium to weapons-grade for 15 years, reduce its number of operating nuclear centrifuges from 19,000 to just over 5,000, and to increase the time it would take to make a bomb from a few months to a year. In a series of tweets, Trump has called the deal, "Terrible," "A catastrophe," "Stupid," "Insane," "Incompetent," "Really sad," "Horrible," "Horrendous," "Incompetent," and "One of the dumbest and most dangerous misjudgments ever." If Trump blows up the deal, Oliver pointed out that it not only means Iran could start building nuclear weapons immediately, but it would also have an effect on other important diplomatic matters. Oliver said, "Why would North Korea consider signing a nuclear agreement with us if we just broke the agreement we signed only three years ago with Iran?" In hopes of convincing Trump that the deal is in everyone's best interests, Oliver bought advertising time during Fox News's Hannity to air a commercial featuring the Catheter Cowboy. During the commercial the Catheter Cowboy says, "I'm here to tell you, the Iran deal may not be perfect, but it helps restrict Iran's ability to start making a bomb for at least ten years. You blow up the deal, and that turns into zero years. And if I've learned one thing from all these years of cowboying and cathetering, it's that zero is way less than ten." The commercial will run this week in the Washington D.C. market. On May 12th we will know if the commercial was effective. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver airs Sundays at 11 p.m. on HBO.