Mr. President, last Saturday marked the 1-year anniversary of the Obama administration's deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. This is the nuclear deal with Iran that officially went into effect last October. Briefly summarized, in exchange for billions of dollars in near-term and long-term sanctions relief, Iran made some very modest nuclear concessions--and that is if you believe the inspection regime is not fundamentally flawed, which I do not believe. So instead of trust and verify, we can't even verify Iran is complying with the terms of the agreement. Indeed, I think we can pretty much be guaranteed that Iran will do its dead-level best to cheat. To make matters worse, the administration all but admitted the deal wasn't going to stop Iran from exporting terrorism--which is the No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism in the world--or violating the human rights of its own citizens or advancing its ballistic missile program. We have seen a lot of evidence of that recently. All of these major bipartisan concerns were highlighted by Congress but totally ignored by the administration. President Obama himself warned that ``this deal is not''--is not--``contingent on Iran changing its behavior. That is the President of the United States, the leader of the free world, the Commander in Chief. The President of the United States said: ``This deal is not contingent on Iran changing its behavior.'' Unbelievable and outrageous.…
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