"Trump has likely been violating the Iran deal from the beginning of his administration."
She was speaking at a conservative think tank that helped make the case for the disastrous war in Iraq.
09/06/2017 10:27 am ET
Aaron Bernstein / Reuters
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“Iran has been caught in multiple violations over the past year and a half.”
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“There are hundreds of undeclared sites that have suspicious activity that they (the IAEA) haven’t looked at.”
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“Iranian leaders…have stated publicly that they will refuse to allow IAEA inspections of their military sites. How can we know Iran is complying with the deal, if inspectors are not allowed to look everywhere they should look?”
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“The deal [Obama] struck wasn’t supposed to be just about nuclear weapons. It was meant to be an opening with Iran; a welcoming back into the community of nations.”
As the Obama administration outlined ad-nauseam, the nuclear deal was limited to the nuclear sphere.
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“We should welcome a debate over whether the JCPOA is in U.S. national security interests. The previous administration set up the deal in a way that denied us that honest and serious debate.”
The U.S. Congress held dozens of hearings over several years to examine the Obama administration’s negotiations with Iran and – midway through the negotiations ? passed a law instituting a 60-day period of Congressional review wherein Obama could not begin to waive sanctions. Congress engaged in heated debate, and opponents of the accord poured in tens of millions of dollars in order to pressure Members of Congress to vote against the deal. No Republican legislator supported it despite there being no favorable alternative, and enough Democrats backed the accord in order to block resolutions of disapproval that would have killed the JCPOA in its crib.
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