☮️PEACE NOT WAR: “We urge you not to cave to [Trump’s] failed approach to Iran,” 50 officials wrote to @POTUS. “We have seen the net effect of that: A larger Iranian nuclear program and a greater risk of war with Iran.”
HT @tparsi @YasmineTaeb @QuincyInst
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2) During the 2020 presidential race, Biden harshly condemned former President Donald Trump’s Iran policy, specifically his “reckless” decision to abandon the deal, the signature foreign policy achievement of his predecessor Barack Obama.
3) After pulling the United States out of the deal, the Trump administration reimposed brutal economic sanctions that had a devastating impact on ordinary Iranians, including depriving them of medicine and other basic humanitarian aid,
4) Trump doubled down on these sanctions even as the country’s Covid-19 death toll continued to climb.
5) “It is essential for the United States to return to the Iran nuclear deal, which necessitates the lifting of Trump’s bad-faith sanctions,” said @keithellison, former DNC Deputy Chair.
6) “The Democratic Party should fight to end rampant militarization and promote multilateralism that enabled the United States to resolve the nuclear issue with Iran without a single shot being fired.” Says @keithellison
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