Political Quotes

“Mr. President, reserving the right to object, no one is proposing lifting sanctions on Iran. This is a legislative proposal seeking to solve a problem that simply does not exist. So let's make that clear from the outset. Second, the Biden administration has been incredibly tough on Iran. Frankly, the Biden administration has drawn a lot of criticism from people like me for not reengaging in the JCPOA. Instead, the Biden administration decided to drive a harder bargain with the Iranians. It is also not true that the Biden administration has not implemented new and additional sanctions on Iran. In fact, just a month ago, the Treasury Department announced the 13th round of new sanctions on Iran, mostly relative to the brutal suppression of the protest movement inside of that country. And so it is important to get the record straight in terms of what this administration's record has been on Iran. And it is also important for us to not create some fantasy world in which the prior administration's Iran policy was working. President Trump's Iran policy was an unmitigated disaster. An absolute disaster. Whatever you think about the JCPOA, there is just no question that after we withdrew from the JCPOA, a set of very bad things happened: One, Iran started shooting at American troops inside Iraq and inside Syria, something that was not happening during the Obama administration while we were in the JCPOA.…”