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On the recordNovember 13, 2014
We are now just 11 days away from the November 24 deadline for the Iran nuclear negotiations. President Obama and the P5+1 have fallen for Rouhani's stall tactics, despite having every reason to suspect that Iran was never serious about a deal, and that is precisely why it is imperative that Congress use the mechanisms at our disposal to prevent the administration from making any nuclear agreement with Iran that seeks to go against our national security interests. The administration and the P5+1 started with a weak hand, and that has only gotten weaker. That is precisely why the Iranian regime feels emboldened to make proclamations that it will never agree to stop its enrichment and why it insists that it has a right to enrich and that it must be part of the final agreement. In just the past few days, the IAEA, the U.N. agency that is tasked with monitoring Iran's nuclear program and ensuring its compliance with the joint plan of action, has said that Iran refuses to answer questions about its nuclear program and that it is impeding its investigation into the possible military dimensions of the program. This is amazing. A former IAEA chief inspector said recently that he believes that Iran lied about the number of advanced centrifuges that it possesses.…
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Republican · Florida
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Nov 13, 2014

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