James E. Risch

It is clear the Iranian regime doubts Biden's will to impose serious costs. It is time to do things differently.

The Iranian people are disillusioned and at a breaking point.

Congress should unite to send a message to Tehran that its terrorism comes at a significant cost.

The Administration chose engagement and appeasement over containment and isolation.

It is time to change course.

Iran is an enduring national security challenge and requires a serious policy that uses all instruments of national power.

I think it is a smart approach to target Iran's illegal oil smuggling to China.

At the beginning of the Biden administration the President's Iran policy was abundantly clear and that was an attempt to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal regardless of the cost.

We must enforce existing Iran sanctions to include stopping Chinese purchase of Iranian oil, and we must permanently freeze Iranian assets around the world.

The Administration chose engagement and appeasement over containment and isolation.

We never talked about it, and I am not going to get into the details here but one of the real things that we really need to focus on is not a drop of oil moves without it going into a ship, and that ship has to have insurance or the ship…

Money is the sinews of war. Iran understands that. If you do not go after the money, it is just not a serious strategy.

This is a failure of American policy that will have consequences for years to come.

Iran is an enduring national security challenge and requires a serious policy that uses all instruments of national power.

It is time to change course.

We must demonstrate American leadership.

Congress should unite to send a message to Tehran that its terrorism comes at a significant cost.

I think we are at a point on the planet where countries are deciding which club they are going to belong to.

the Russians are notorious that when they do get caught red-handed, whatever they are doing, they just lie about it.

Most Americans are not familiar with the term transnational repression.

I think we are at a point on the planet where countries are deciding which club they are going to belong to.

Most Americans are not familiar with the term transnational repression.

the Russians are notorious that when they do get caught red-handed, whatever they are doing, they just lie about it.

whenever you talk about voluntary, anybody here think that China or Russia are going to voluntarily comply with any international norms when they think it is in their best interest to do otherwise?

whenever you talk about voluntary, anybody here think that China or Russia are going to voluntarily comply with any international norms when they think it is in their best interest to do otherwise?