It has been said that liberty and freedom require eternal vigilance.
There are no permanent victories or defeats in Washington – only permanent battles.
So despite what you may hear from the mainstream news media or the White House that this deal is done—it is not done, and this is a battle The Heritage Foundation and all of you must keep fighting.
- There is already American blood on Iran’s hands, and this deal would give the world’s No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism billions of dollars to pass on to their friends like Hezbollah and Hamas. Will that make the world a safer place?
- This deal leaves Iran with everything it needs to build a nuclear bomb, and now 12 other countries in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey, Syria, and Egypt, have announced plans to begin building nuclear weapons. Will that make the world a safer place?
- Instead of the anytime, anywhere inspections that were promised, this deal gives the Iranians up to a month to hide and cover up any wrongdoing before investigators can make inspections. Will that make the world a safer place?
- President Obama says this deal is the only way to prevent war. President Obama, sanctions worked to prevent war in the past. If you want to make the world a safer place, you should call for strengthening sanctions, not eliminating them.
The more the American people have learned about the deal, the more opposed they are to it.
And that is why those members of the Senate who have decided to support this deal want to do so without going on record—they don’t want to have to actually go on the Senate floor and cast a vote.
That is unacceptable—Americans should know where their senators stand. They should know where those candidates who want to succeed President Obama stand.
Poll after poll shows that the president has absolutely failed in convincing the American public that this deal is going to make them safer or the world safer.
President Obama: When a majority of Americans, a majority of their elected representatives in Congress, and even many of your own party oppose your policy, it is time to reverse course.
These are slightly adapted from the remarks Genevieve Wood made at the Stop Iran Deal Rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
