Dan Coats: “back home this weekend in Indiana I took the time very carefully to read through all 159 pages of the agreement made…”

“back home this weekend in Indiana I took the time very carefully to read through all 159 pages of the agreement made with Iran, as well as a lot of supporting material written by the foreign policy experts who had an opportunity also to look at this. I read it carefully because words mean a lot. As concerned as I was when we started this process, I became much more concerned after reading through the fine print that is now called the agreement with Iran. Yesterday we returned to Washington to start the session this week. I had the opportunity as a member of the Select Intelligence Committee to look over the classified annexes of this. There is still one outstanding, which we will be looking at as soon as we receive it. The more I read, the more concerned I am that we have struck not a good deal, not a passable deal that we have to accept, but a bad deal--a bad deal that is clearly worse than no deal. Four Presidents--three previous Presidents and this current President--have declared over the years of their service that a nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable. Each person, each President used that very word ``unacceptable.'' But this deal intends simply to slow down Iran's march to nuclear weapons capability. Even the White House has conceded now that it will not permanently stop Iran's nuclear ambitions. This, in and of itself, should raise major questions and concerns about this agreement.…”