Political Quotes

“I rise today to join many of my colleagues in the Senate to express grave concerns with the currently proposed Iran deal from the administration. This deal is fundamentally at odds with the goals that these negotiations set out to achieve in the first place, which were to prevent a nuclear Iran. In fact, this deal does the opposite. It provides a patient pathway to the nation of Iran. With this deal, the administration has granted international blessing to a full-scale Iranian nuclear program in 15 years. With this deal, we let Iran keep its most prized nuclear assets, such as advanced centrifuges and to convert but not dismantle its nuclear reactors at Arak and Fordow. With this deal, the anytime, anyplace access to all of Iran's nuclear facilities became managed access. With this deal, inspectors need 24-day permission from Tehran to access their military facilities such as Parchin, which we know were used for nuclear weaponization work in the past. With this deal, our economic leverage in Iran through the sanctions regime that was painstakingly built over a number of years will be completely squandered. With this deal, Iran will rebuild its economy and add economic resilience against future sanctions through $100 to $150 billion in economic relief and lifting the sanctions.…”