Ted Cruz isn’t messing around. He just released this statement calling for an immediate withdrawal of the Obama Iran deal as well as for the US to impose ‘crushing sanctions’ on Iran in its place:
“Today’s stunning revelations by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu powerfully demonstrate why the Obama Iran nuclear deal is not just unfixable, but truly catastrophic. The Prime Minister’s presentation was remarkable—unprecedented—and worth watching in full. Through extraordinary intelligence operations, Israeli agents captured over 100,000 secret documents and files from Iran. These Iranian documents prove that (1) for two decades, Iran has conducted a clandestine nuclear weapons program; (2) Iran lied repeatedly, and brazenly, denying that secret program; (3) the Obama nuclear deal was predicated on that edifice of lies; and (4) Iran is today in violation of that deal.
“The national security consequences of the Obama Iranian nuclear deal are twofold: First, America has allowed billions of dollars to flow to the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, a nation directly responsible for the murder of hundreds of U.S. servicemen and women. And second, those billions of dollars have also propped up a despotic regime and provided vast resources for ongoing ballistic missile tests designed to enable Iran to launch a nuclear weapon on the American homeland.
“In light of these astonishing Israeli revelations, the course before President Trump is clear. As the President has said repeatedly, this deal is a ‘terrible deal,’ even worse than many previously realized. The United States should therefore withdraw immediately, re-impose crushing sanctions, work to encourage our allies to do the same, and do everything necessary to insure that the Ayatollah Khamenei never — never — acquires the nuclear weapons to make good on his pledge of ‘death to America.’”
I love Cruz’s statement and wholeheartedly agree with him here. I’d only add one thing.
The billions dollars that he references didn’t just ‘flow’ to Iran, it ‘flew’ there! Remember how Obama sent the Iranians 1.7 billion in 3 installments of cash dollars on pallets? Just insane. Of course I know he means more than that, I just wanted to remind of you of Obama’s treachery.
In any event, perhaps this new evidence is just what Trump needed to push him over the hump to finally end this ridiculous Iran deal that’s been phony from the beginning. Much of the damage is already done so we might as well end it once and for all.