This afternoon, Senators @SenatorRisch, @tedcruz and @SenJohnBarrasso are leading a @SenateGOP press conference on the Iran nuclear deal.
You'd be hard-pressed to find three people who've been as wrong over as long a period on how to address Iran's nuclear program. [Thread]
You'd be hard-pressed to find three people who've been as wrong over as long a period on how to address Iran's nuclear program. [Thread]
2| Here's @SenatorRisch talking to @NPR in 2017, prior to Trump's withdrawal. He laments the deal's sunsets (not 10 years, BTW), and says the solution is... sanctions. Well, we know how that worked out - no nuclear restrictions at all!
3| Here's @SenJohnBarrasso on @FoxNews in 2019, lauding the decision to withdraw because "it didn't step them from getting the path to the weapon".
Yet here we are, with Iran enriching near-weapons grade, under limited monitoring, weeks from breakout capability.
Yet here we are, with Iran enriching near-weapons grade, under limited monitoring, weeks from breakout capability.
4| As for @tedcruz, his open support for regime change is a matter of record. So too are demonstrably wrong statements like this 👇
https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/641704735574241280
5| Equally embarrassing was vocal advocacy for snapback at the UN in 2020, which he claimed the U.S. had "full authority" to do and led to... this.
6/6 It's not only useful, but imperative, to have a serious debate about the JCPOA - if #ViennaTalks actually succeed.
But let's also bear in mind the need to separate fact from fiction, wish lists from realities, track records from rhetoric, particularly from mumpsimuses.
But let's also bear in mind the need to separate fact from fiction, wish lists from realities, track records from rhetoric, particularly from mumpsimuses.
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