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"Gov. Rick Perry: Iran Deal Will
Jeopardize Israel's Security"
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3:17 video from March 5, 2015.
[Foreboding music low in
background]
Rick Perry: The
Obama Administration is desperately pursuing a nuclear agreement with
Iran.
The president seems prepared to accept an agreement that will leave
Iran with the infrastructure and capacity to build a nuclear weapon,
and will provide an economic boost to a regime that spends its money
importing the tools of repression and exporting terrorism.
During the negotiations, this administration has caved on one demand
after another.
They once pledged that Iran would dismantle much of its enrichment
capacity. Well no longer. Iran will retain thousands of
centrifuges.
They once insisted that Iran would have to come clean on the
military dimensions of its nuclear program. No longer.
The past is all but forgotten, if not forgiven. And Iran's
long-range ballistic missiles, those whose only purpose is carrying a
nuclear payload, are not even the subject of discussion in those talks.
But perhaps the most disturbing concession to Iran is the notion of
a sunset clause. This means at a date certain, perhaps only ten
years from now, Iran will be free to become a nuclear power with our
acceptance and approval--all limits on this terrorist regime will be
removed.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows this, which is why
he made a special appearance before Congress warning that this deal
would jeopardize Israel's security and ultimately ours.
In my view two principles should be non-negotiable.
One. Iran will not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons,
period.
And two, the United States will not normalize relations with Iran
until Iran ceases to support terrorist groups that target the United
States and our allies.
We must be clear about the threat posed by the Iranian regime.
Iran is still the most significant supporter of terrorist organizations
such as Hezbollah and Hamas. It continues to call for extinction
of Israel and actively plots against our Arab allies. It
continues to deny the Iranian people the freedom they seek. And
the ayatollahs have the blood of hundreds and hundreds of Americans on
their hands from Marines blown up in Beirut to soldiers killed in Iraq
with weapons Iran supplied.
This proposed nuclear agreement would legitimize the Iranian regime
and its quest for nuclear weapons. This cannot stand.
The Senate should finally pass the bipartisan sanctions bill
sponsored by Sens. Mark Kirk and Robert Menendez. And Congress
must demand that any nuclear arms agreement negotiated with Iran be
submitted to the Congress for a vote, not deliberately kept from our
elected representatives.
If President Obama signs an agreement that the Congress cannot
support, our next president should not be bound by it. An arms
control agreement that excludes our Congress, damages our security and
endangers our allies has to be reconsidered by any future president.
We must not allow the incompetence of one administration to damage
our country's security for years and decades to come.
Notes: Aside from former
Sen. Jim Webb's exploratory announcement this is one of the
most policy-oriented videos produced thus far.