Rep. Messer Echoes Netanyahu’s Call for an End to Iran Nuclear Deal

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U.S. Rep. Luke Messer (IN-06) joined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in urging the Trump Administration to either drastically change President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal or exit the deal altogether.

Reached in 2015 during the Obama administration, the Iran nuclear deal lifted critical economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for promises to reduce the regime’s development of nuclear weapons.

“The Iran nuclear deal was a giant mistake. It has been bad for our national security, bad for Israel’s national security and bad for the world,” Messer said. “More than a year after the deal, Iran is still working toward a nuclear bomb and is building missile factories to prop up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. These are unacceptable threats that should have been anticipated when the deal was first made. I join Prime Minister Netanyahu in urging the Trump Administration to either make major changes to the deal or abandon it altogether.”

Netanyahu has been an outspoken critic of the deal, saying last week, “Our position is straightforward. This is a bad deal. Either fix it — or cancel it. This is Israel’s position.”

A longtime champion of pro-Israel policy, Messer met with Prime Minister Netanyahu in Israel in 2013, and met with Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer in Washington in July.

“Hoosiers are united in their support for the Jewish state,” Messer said. “President Obama’s defection from Israel and deal-making with its enemies was unconscionable. With a new President in the White House, we have the opportunity to undo damage made during the Obama years and stand strong with our longtime friend and critical ally, Israel. Rescinding the Iran nuclear deal or substantially changing it is an important first step.”

Every three months, President Trump is required to inform Congress whether or not Iran is in compliance with the agreement’s ban on the development of nuclear weapons. The next deadline is Oct. 15.

Earlier this month, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said that President Trump would have grounds to stand on should he choose to not certify Iran’s end of the deal.

 

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  1. ”If you take out Saddam, Saddam’s regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region,” – Netanyahu addressing Congress 2002

    “The deal, signed by enemies of the Revolution, is legally too flawed,” wrote the Facebook commenter, Seyed Morteza Rashidi. “It seems that Iranian negotiators are either traitors or uneducated individuals.” – Iranian commenter finding common cause with Messer in a roundabout way

    “Not only the preponderance of retired professionals but also currently serving ones, dissent from Netanyahu’s read of the deal. Netanyahu can’t silence the former, but he’s given a “gag order” to the latter” – Why a gag order?

    Whenever a country fills their hydrogen bomb making facility full of concrete and is verified by the IAEA, in return for “their” money that had been frozen years before, and when you can’t find anything good about that, then you not only are a ‘hardliner”, you are a dumbass also.

    Why is it the vast majority of the world and even Israeli security experts believe the Iran nuclear deal to be far superior to the alternative but the Republican Party and Netanyahu do not?

    Netanyahu suckered Shrub into doing his bidding in invading Iraq and now has found another Mop Headed dummy willing to waste another $2 trillion of blood and treasure so he doesn’t have to.

    Pretty sharp cookie ole Netanyahu has become and with the help of pretty boy Messer, he will surely get his way….

    • You’re fundamentally correct, but “W” didn’t need to be suckered into invading Iraq. Saddam trying to assassinate his father sealed the deal long before 9-11. Read Hostettler’s book “Nothing for the Nation” for a little insight by someone who was there.

      • Don’t need to. You don’t cost your country $2 trillion in blood and treasure because your daddy was threatened unless “no bid contracts” Trumped the daddy thing.

        Also realize some people on here and other forums despise my opinion of Hostettler making the monumental decisions that mattered for the salvation of our country but I’ll never expect the gun nuts and abortion freaks to do the same if turned around. Result – Trump

        By the way, I’ve been surrounded by Born Agin Conservative Christians my entire life.

        But I’ve only known 2….

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