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On the recordNovember 13, 2014
I appreciate my colleague very much for speaking in a way so we can all have time on the issue. No. 1, about the chilling messages, this is a chilling message from the Supreme Leader of Iran about 3 days ago: Nine questions about the elimination of Israel. In this tweet--and I will read some of it later--the Ayatollah, the Supreme Leader in Iran, talks about how to annihilate the State of Israel during the negotiations. Also, recently an IAEA inspector was talking about elements of the Iranian nuclear program that have been hidden that would make it larger than we all suspect. What are we trying to do? I would like to bring the Iranian nuclear program to an end through peaceful means, and by an end, I mean the following: I would welcome a deal that would allow the Iranians to produce peaceful nuclear power but without the capability of turning that program into a weapons program. I fear that we are on the road to a North Korean outcome, where the international community gave a rogue regime a small nuclear program to be monitored by the United Nations--and the rest is history regarding North Korea. I have asked several times to the administration: Tell me the safeguards that exist in these negotiations with Iran that did not exist in North Korea, and I have yet to get an answer. It is pretty openly known that the administration and the P5+1 have conceded a right to enrich uranium as part of any deal with Iran.…
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina
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Nov 13, 2014

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