If it is true that sanctions did not stop Iran's nuclear program, neither does this negotiated agreement.
It seems to me that the burden is shifting here, that under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, it is almost like we have to prove our c...
The way in which we were able to mount all this pressure and all these sanctions on Iran is because, as Senator Menendez was describing, the...
the ayatollah trying to think about, 'How do I preserve the regime and the revolution?'
You cannot advise and consent, in a sense, to something for which you are going in the blind on pure faith.
I am deeply, deeply disappointed of their unwillingness to come in any session, public or classified, to have a discussion.
The entire inspection regime, the entire verification regime, depends upon the IAEA.
If you do not have economic sanctions to stop that Iran, then you really only have military force, or you concede.
My worst-case scenario is that, as you have described, a much stronger Iran, a much more economically resilient Iran.
I do not buy the proposition that war is necessarily automatic.
Iran has a history here of deceit, deception, delay that has brought us to this point.