Senator Ron Johnson Talks about Hot Button Issues, Part 1 Iran Deal
Monday, July 20th, 2015 -- 11:09 AM
-Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson was in the Central Wisconsin area on Saturday.Senator Johnson sat down with me and talked about some hot button issues on the federal level. The first item he talked about was the recent deal made between the U.S., Iran and other countries in regards to uranium enrichment.
He said, "Well, I'm highly concerned and skeptical. Since 2006, the United Nations has imposed sanctions on Iran, demanding that they dismantle their nuclear weapons program. President Obama, I think, puts forward a false choice. It's either this deal or war. The real choice should have been to, if Iran wasn't coming to the negotiating table in good faith, they should have ratcheted up the sanctions. When they were actually in place where we had the world community behind those sanctions."
"But, unfortunately, President Obama lost this negotiation right from the start when he began to relax the sanctions and acknowledge, basically, mostly acknowledge, that Iran was going to continue to have their right to continue to enrich uranium. We should have been demanding dismantle it, like we did with South Africa and like we do with Libya. That should have been the world demand and that, of course, is why those sanctions were originally put in place to demand dismantlement so that we can stop the threat of nuclear proliferation and obviously prevent Iran from ever getting a nuclear weapon."
"And lets face it, Iran is the largest state sponsor of terror. They're destabilizing the region, they're destabilizing the world. So, President Obama, I think, is just incorrect when he says this deal prevents Iran from getting a bomb. It maybe delays it, I'll acknowledge that. But it lifts the arms embargo after only 5 years, no change in behavior required by Iran, just time. Then in 8 years it lifts the embargo on ballistic missile technology. So, if you combine an Iran, kinda like a North Korea now with ballistic missile technology that continues to advance, now we have two threats. These are real threats."
Coming up on Tuesday, Senator Johnson will talk about the information pulled into the light in wake of the Tomah VA incident.
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