Ed Royce: “I would just make the point that, with respect to Ronald Reagan, when President Reagan was presented with a bad deal at…”

“I would just make the point that, with respect to Ronald Reagan, when President Reagan was presented with a bad deal at Reykjavik, while in his negotiations with the Russians, at that point, he walked away from that deal. He pushed away from the deal because, in his mind, we could come back and get a better deal if we stood our ground. This was not the circumstance with respect to our negotiations with Iran. With the Iranian negotiations, we had four points that this Congress--84 percent of us in a letter to the Secretary of State--laid out. Those points were that it was supposed to be anywhere, anytime inspections; it was supposed to last multiple decades; we were not supposed to lift the sanctions up front but do it over the entirety of the agreement in order to get compliance, to ensure we had compliance; and it was to make certain that those 12 questions that the IAEA had asked were answered. These were all important because, again, as Reagan pointed out to the Russians--and threw their own expression back to them--he said: There is an old Russian expression, ``trust, but verify,'' and that is what we need to apply to the agreement. That is the last point I would make here, the verification component of it, when you have side agreements which Congress has not seen and those side agreements, in the case of Parchin--where we have ample evidence of their past bomb work--allow the Iranians to do their own inspections.…”