A long-awaited nuclear agreement between the United States and Iran will “do nothing” to enhance security in the Middle East, a senior Senate Democrat told SecBlinken.
“It will do nothing about the destabilization of the region,” Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Menendez of New Jersey said Tuesday. “At the end of the day, it's not going to meet the essential challenge that we have with Iran.”
“The decision to pull out of the agreement and the effort to exert maximum pressure on Iran, whatever the intent, did not produce results,” Blinken told Menendez in reference to Trump’s 2018 withdrawal from the pact.
Risch suggested that the prospective nuclear agreement has been rendered redundant by Israel’s hawkish leadership. Israel long has opposed the deal, in part on the grounds that the financial advantages provided to Iran by the lifting of economic sanctions empower Iran to conduct more aggressive operations. “It is us here in the region that will have to deal with that afterward," Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett reportedly told Blinken in March.
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