Sen. Tom Cotton: President Trump and Republican Congress will begin new policy of resolve toward Tehran
WASHINGTON-Wall Street Journal, 11 Nov. 2016- Donald Trump as president will be positioned to swiftly pull the U.S. out of the Obama administration’s landmark nuclear agreement with Iran, as he suggested during his campaign…
Tehran has been found to have briefly violated its pledges twice since the deal was reached in mid-2015, according to U.S. and European officials. Yet international commitment to the agreement remains strong, and the parties who negotiated it—China, Russia, France, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S.—have pledged to promote it…
“The agreement is valid only as long as all parties uphold it,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Wednesday.
On Wednesday, the United Nations ’ nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, reported that Iran was in violation of one term of the nuclear deal, said U.S. and European officials…
Specifically, Tehran had accumulated an excess of heavy water, a key material for a nuclear-weapons program, in recent weeks, the IAEA concluded.
This marked the second time Iran was in excess of its heavy water commitment, U.S. and European officials said.
Republicans said the Trump administration won’t make such concessions to Iran.
“It’s no surprise that Iran is once again testing the limits of the nuclear deal to see what it can get away with,” said Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas. “In January, a President Trump and a Republican Congress will begin a new policy of resolve toward Iran’s ayatollahs.”
The Trump administration could point to issues such as heavy-water accumulation and ballistic-missile tests to argue to other nations that Iran isn’t in compliance. Some aides to Mr. Trump have suggested tougher U.S. enforcement of Iran’s commitments would force Tehran itself to pull out.
Iran has much to gain from keeping the deal alive, and has complained that the U.S. hasn’t done enough to help it reap economic gains from the agreement. Tehran has said the U.S. has been slow to lift sanctions and encourage other countries to invest in Iran.
Mr. Trump and other Republicans, however, have expressed little interest in aiding Iran’s reintegration into the global economy. And they have instead vowed to constrain Iran’s influence in its region.
“On top of Iran’s illicit development of ballistic missiles, its hostage-taking, and its regional aggression, this latest violation is another sign that Iran has been emboldened by President Obama’s concessions and weakness,” Mr. Cotton said.
Tehran has been found to have briefly violated its pledges twice since the deal was reached in mid-2015, according to U.S. and European officials. Yet international commitment to the agreement remains strong, and the parties who negotiated it—China, Russia, France, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S.—have pledged to promote it…
“The agreement is valid only as long as all parties uphold it,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Wednesday.
On Wednesday, the United Nations ’ nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, reported that Iran was in violation of one term of the nuclear deal, said U.S. and European officials…
Specifically, Tehran had accumulated an excess of heavy water, a key material for a nuclear-weapons program, in recent weeks, the IAEA concluded.
This marked the second time Iran was in excess of its heavy water commitment, U.S. and European officials said.
Republicans said the Trump administration won’t make such concessions to Iran.
“It’s no surprise that Iran is once again testing the limits of the nuclear deal to see what it can get away with,” said Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas. “In January, a President Trump and a Republican Congress will begin a new policy of resolve toward Iran’s ayatollahs.”
The Trump administration could point to issues such as heavy-water accumulation and ballistic-missile tests to argue to other nations that Iran isn’t in compliance. Some aides to Mr. Trump have suggested tougher U.S. enforcement of Iran’s commitments would force Tehran itself to pull out.
Iran has much to gain from keeping the deal alive, and has complained that the U.S. hasn’t done enough to help it reap economic gains from the agreement. Tehran has said the U.S. has been slow to lift sanctions and encourage other countries to invest in Iran.
Mr. Trump and other Republicans, however, have expressed little interest in aiding Iran’s reintegration into the global economy. And they have instead vowed to constrain Iran’s influence in its region.
“On top of Iran’s illicit development of ballistic missiles, its hostage-taking, and its regional aggression, this latest violation is another sign that Iran has been emboldened by President Obama’s concessions and weakness,” Mr. Cotton said.
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