Fiorina: Obama ‘Has Caved on Every Major Goal’ to Iran

‘We should have recognized that China and Russia have not been negotiating on our side of the table’

STEPHANOPOULOS: "Good morning, Ms. Fiorina. Thank you for joining us. Want to start right there with the Iran nuclear talks. You just heard Senator Menendez, the Iranian side as well. You said that you would have walked away from the talks a long time ago. So if you were president today, what exactly would you be doing with Iran?"
FIORINA: "Well, I would have walked away because if you can’t walk away from the negotiating table, the other side just keeps negotiating. And that’s precisely what’s happened. We have caved on every major goal that President Obama set, as Senator Menendez pointed out, and so I would walk away and I would the Iranians that until and unless they are prepared to open every nuclear facility, every uranium enrichment facility to full and unfettered inspections, that we will make it as difficult as possible for them to move money around the global financial system. We can do that. We don’t need anyone’s permission or collaboration to do that. And beyond that, of course, we should have recognized from the outset that China and Russia have not been negotiating on our side of the table. It is in those two countries interests. And beyond that, of course, we should have recognized that China and Russia have not been negotiating on our side of the table. It is in those two countries’ interests that Iran’s economy is open. And so in many ways they have been negotiating on Iran’s side of the table."

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