After the
announcement of President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran this week,
U.S. Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA) released a statement on Wednesday expressing her disappointment with the terms of the agreement.
“From
everything we’ve seen and heard to date, this is a perilous deal for America
and a perilous deal for Israel and our other allies in the Middle East,”
Comstock said. “Going into these negotiations, the Obama administration said the
goal was to not have Iran obtain nuclear weapons. This deal fails that
test and is not in the national security interests of the United States.
This deal does not dismantle Iran’s nuclear weapons program; it does not
provide anytime, anywhere inspections; and does not cut back Iran’s ballistic
missile program.”
Comstock said that not only does the deal fall short of its
aim in dismantling Iran’s nuclear capabilities, but also rewards the rogue
nation with billions of dollars of sanctions relief and makes the dangerous
concession of lifting the arms embargo in five years, providing Iran, a country
that exports terrorism, with the means to spread violence around the region.
“Iran
is the world’s largest sponsor of terror, and what President
Obama trumpeted today does not keep America safe; rather, it only emboldens Iran
to continue spreading instability and terror throughout an already unstable
region of the world,” Comstock said.
“Congress
will now have 60 days to review this deal, and it is the job of Congress to
evaluate and disclose the facts about this dangerous policy,” Comstock said. “The
American people need to be informed about the dangers this deal poses to our
nation’s security and the existential threat an Iran with nuclear weapons will
mean for the world. At the end of this process, I will urge my fellow
colleagues to vote to disapprove this misguided deal and to vote to override
the president’s threatened veto.”