On Friday, Senator Tom Cotton (AK-R) vowed to keep an agreement with Iran from materializing.
Cotton was on CNN’s The Lead when he said:I’m going to do everything I can to stop these terms from becoming a final deal.
Secretary of State John Kerry had suggested sanctions would be relaxed in phases whereas Iran’s leaders have described it in more immediate terms per Cotton.
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The Senator has suggested the way to counteract the administrations efforts is by not allowing congressionally mandated sanctions to be removed. Congress could also impose new sanctions and push for legislation that would allow them to review any deal reached with Iran.
It was announced on Thursday an agreement framework was reached. That agreement is Iran would scale back on their installed centrifuges and their facilities would be subject to international inspection.
This agreement would not limit Iran’s stockpile of nuclear material and it would not close any of there nuclear facilities.Cotton had the following to say about the agreement:
Its not a framework, it was just a detailed list of American concessions that is going to put Iran on the path to a nuclear weapon, whether they followed the terms . . . of they violate the terms. . . Iran may not accept them in the first place because Iran has continued to string along our negotiators.
President Obama has since said the agreement is historic and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, who was part of the U.S. team negotiating the deal argued on Friday:
Cotton has said there are alternatives:There are four pathways that have been identified to a bomb. We have blocked all of those pathways for a considerable period of time.
The alternative to this deal is a better deal with continued pressure through the credible threat of military force and more sanctions, and, if necessary, having to take military action.
Cotton also said:
There are grave reservations about the path the president is taking us down, on both sides of the aisle.