Senator Sullivan Statement on Iran Nuclear Deal

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) issued the following statement today regarding the Obama Administration’s nuclear agreement with Iran:

“The principal objective of entering into negotiations with Iran from the beginning was to keep that country—the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism—from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” Senator Sullivan said.  “However, we have moved from the clear objective of dismantling Iran’s nuclear weapons capability to managing the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East.  President Ronald Reagan famously said that in the realm of high stakes nuclear agreements, the United States must ‘trust but verify.’  We have neither in this agreement.  Iran’s leaders are not trustworthy and the agreement appears to lack the unfettered inspections needed to verify compliance.”

“The primary responsibility of the president and of those of us in Congress is to keep our country safe. The president seems to have forgotten this. As we're reviewing the agreement in the coming months, my colleagues and I won’t.”

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