Senator Pat Toomey Urges Senate To Reject Iranian Nuclear Deal
By Dom Giordano
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey voiced his disagreement with nuclear deal negotiated by the White House, select European powers, and China with Iran, complaining there are not enough safeguards in place forcing Iran to uphold their end of the agreement.
Toomey told Dom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, that according to his reading of the language, the Iranians can discard the pact at their convenience.
"If Iran violates the agreement, and let's say the violation is completely blatant and it's fully adjudicated, the UN Security Council unanimously agrees they're in violation, the IAEA agrees, everybody can see that there's a clear violation. Let's just say that happens, hypothetically. If the US then responds by saying since you are in violation, we're going to restore some portion of the sanctions, then according to the agreement, Iran reserves the right to walk away from the deal entirely."
He blames President Obama for not insisting on stronger terms that would bind Iran to their end of the bargain.
"There are no consequences because we've got an administration that tells us everyday, many times a day, the only alternative is war and that's completely unacceptable so we have to do this. Well, guess what? If Iran is in violation and there's any discussion about doing any thing about it, the Iranians will simply say, you go ahead and do it. We're out of here."
Toomey is hoping there is still time to rally the Senate to a veto-proof rejection of the deal before it is officially put into place.
"This is probably going to come down to a question of whether there are 13 Democrats in the United States Senate who will join what will probably end up being all of the Republicans in trying to stop a very, very dangerous agreement from going ahead. If we can persuade some of our colleagues, there are a number of colleagues who are not committed one way or the other, we don't know where they stand on this. In fairness, they're still doing their due diligence."