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Lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bipartisan law targeting Iran’s energy sector and making it more difficult to finance terrorist activities and develop ballistic missiles.
Ohio Republican Rep. Dave Joyce told Fox Digital:
Representatives joined a bipartisan group including Rep. Susie Lee (Nevada Democrat) and Rep. Michelle Steele (California Republican) to introduce the Iran Sanctions Strengthening Act.
“I am ready to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to confront and contain Iran’s aggression, to secure the freedom of the American people, our ally Israel, and all freedoms – Republicans or Democrats. Not as an American, but as an American – love the people of the Middle East. America must choose force over appeasement when dealing with the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism.
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With the Biden administration still negotiating the final details of a new nuclear deal with Iran, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressed key concerns about America’s Iran policy in a speech at the Hudson Institute on Thursday. .
Secretary of State Pompeo said, “Re-signing the deal would ensure that Iran has the ability to build a nuclear weapons program.”
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He added that discussions on the JCPOA are “zombie talk.” “
“The truth is that even with the sanctions in place, they are giving money to the Iranians today because, as anyone who has lived in this world knows, sanctions without enforcement is just a bad joke…” Pompeo claimed.
The former secretary argued that the United States was losing power by first pursuing the nuclear issue and then tackling terrorism plots.
“For now, at least, the JCPOA is the most effective way to permanently and verifiably ensure that Iran will not acquire nuclear weapons,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in an interview with Fox Digital. rice field.
Iran remains the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism.
Michael Dolan, senior fellow and director of the Middle East Center for Peace and Security at the Hudson Institute, says JCPOA purists are central to the Biden administration’s policy toward Iran.
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“The JCPOA is a vehicle for engaging with and building relations with Iran. They basically believe in appeasing Iran … to reach a sort of reconciliation with Iran on regional security. said Doran.
The United States has announced sanctions on top Iranian security officials and morality police following the death of 22-year-old Masa Amini, who was detained for not wearing a hijab properly.
Through the Solidify Iran Sanctions Act, it would put economic pressure on Iran’s energy sector and send a clear signal that the United States will not tolerate any existential threat.
Doran said efforts to make sanctions permanent are laudable, but must be enforced.
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“One of the problems we have now is that we can put sanctions on the books and, in theory, force the regime to enforce sanctions,” he warned.