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Chris Coons

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Chris Coons is a United States Senator from Delaware, serving since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Coons has been involved in various Senate committees, focusing on issues such as foreign relations, judiciary matters, and small business. He is known for his advocacy on topics including military policy and legal transparency in government actions. Coons has also been active in promoting bipartisan efforts in the Senate.

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Jan 20, 2015

I expect that we will work on a relentless and bipartisan basis to ensure that our allies understand that we intend to continue to enforce sanctions against Iran's ongoing bad behavior in the region.

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Jan 20, 2015

I think we have to continue and increase our interdiction both of weapons flows and capital flows going to terrorist proxies in the region.

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Jan 20, 2015

I think tireless work with our P5+1 partners as well, as well as continuing to enforce what sanctions authorities we have and extend them as a key piece of this.

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Jan 20, 2015

In January many Members of Congress will call for the swift renewal of the Iran Sanctions Act, which expires at the end of 2016

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Jan 20, 2015

If we take our eye off this ball, if we fail in any way to relentlessly enforce what we have got in terms of both U.S. unilateral and multilateral abilities to constrain Iran's actions, they will take that as a clear signal that we have…

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Jan 20, 2015

My willingness to support the JCPOA was rooted in a clear-eyed commitment to holding this administration and the next accountable for active enforcement of the JCPOA

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Jan 20, 2015

I think somebody used it, this permissive environment that we have created, which we acknowledge that Iran is going to continue a program of nuclear development, ballistic missile development regardless of the consequences.

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Jan 20, 2015

When the United States steps up, acts with determination, it reassures our allies.

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Jan 20, 2015

I think that there will be new challenges from the Iranians.

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Jan 20, 2015

When they are frightened, they get aggressive, and they do not get aggressive in a good way.

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Jan 20, 2015

I fear that it is going to require the United States actually stepping up and pushing back on the Iranians.

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Jan 20, 2015

These kinds of actions by Iran would spur a reaction by our allies in the region, who consider Iran their chief rival.

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Jan 20, 2015

With the removal of the ban on Iran exporting arms, Iran is going to face fewer impediments to arming those proxies.

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Jan 20, 2015

The deal seems more likely to facilitate that strategy.

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Jan 20, 2015

Iran's nuclear ambitions are not separate from but, in my view, are part and parcel of its larger regional strategy.

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Jan 20, 2015

I think we should take the Iranians at their word. They are going to support their proxies and allies.

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Jan 20, 2015

I think they are vitally important, and I would associate myself with the previous conversations about the IAEA.

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Jan 20, 2015

I believe we will retain the Germans, the French, and the Brits in a transatlantic sanctions regime.

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Jan 20, 2015

The snapback sanctions that we can effect through the U.N. Security Council, are they the broad, sweeping financial sector sanctions that we worked on together that brought Iran to the table, or are they a paler version of that?

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Jan 20, 2015

It is an agreement built on distrust.

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Jan 20, 2015

A nuclear-armed Iran would threaten our national security, our vital ally, Israel, and the stability of the entire Middle East.

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Jan 20, 2015

The United States must not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.

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Jan 20, 2015

What he meant was 8 years from now we would have the opportunity to weigh in because that is what is stated in the agreement.

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Jan 20, 2015

Unfortunately the executive branch went directly to the United Nations this Monday morning, something that certainly was not in the spirit of this.

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Jan 20, 2015

We would not be here today, we would not have the information that we have today, if we had not passed the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act.

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