As President Kennedy once said, let us never fear to negotiate, but let us not negotiate out of fear.
Mike McCaul
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Michael Thomas McCaul is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 10th congressional district since 2005. A member of the Republican Party, he has been active in various legislative efforts, particularly focusing on national security and foreign policy. McCaul has played a significant role in discussions surrounding U.S. relations with countries like Ukraine and Russia, often emphasizing the importance of NATO and the need for a strong response to aggression.
I think that we should negotiate, but I believe that lifting sanctions should not be done until they have dismantled their nuclear program.
I have some concerns about this deal. We have worked on these sanctions for a decade.
I am concerned that it deals nothing with the technology aspects, as we know they have the capability to hit Israel and Europe with its missiles currently, and the Pentagon projects that they have ICBM capability of hitting the United…
My concern is that this deal violates six U.N. Security Council resolutions to give Iran the right to enrich.
I believe detecting behavior can be so important, in terms of stopping the threat.
We need to do all we can to protect our aviation system and to evolve our security measures.
I admire what you are doing. It is not easy representing an agency that comes under so much scrutiny.
We have to not put our brakes on relative to sanctions, but accelerate, because only if there is internal pressure by the emerging youth that is better capable of challenging the regime and the deplorable state of the Iranian economy will…
So the question is: Is Iran serious about change, and can Rouhani negotiate a deal that he can deliver on?
I suspect that sometime in 2014 you will see mass demonstrations on the streets of Tehran again because of the deplorable condition that the Iranian economy is in.





