Lee Zeldin: “I thank Congressman Rokita for being here and for his important words as well and for all of the Members who have…”

“I thank Congressman Rokita for being here and for his important words as well and for all of the Members who have spoken. I recognize House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, Congressman Pete Roskam, and former Congressman, now CIA Director, Mike Pompeo. These are some of the voices during the course of these last few years on this very important issue on the need to hold Iran accountable and to fight for the best possible agreement for the United States. Over the course of tonight, we discussed what was in the JCPOA, and we discussed the JCPOA as far as what wasn't in it and some of the challenges that we have faced since the JCPOA has first been entered into. We all want to deal with Iran's bad activities. We have to ask ourselves: How are we going to do that? What is the leverage that brought the Iranians to the table to negotiate the Iran nuclear deal? How do we get that leverage back? Now, some people out there are saying that Iran is abiding by their word and that the United States would somehow be going back on our word by the President decertifying the Iran nuclear deal. We can have a discussion about what violates the spirit of the Iran nuclear deal. We talked about Iran's other bad activities: their financing of terror, their overthrowing of foreign governments, illegally test- firing intercontinental ballistic missiles, holding Americans hostage, and publicly embarrassing American Navy sailors.…”