Rep. Sherman (D-Calif.) Blasts Iran Deal, Hopes Congress Rejects

“Thank you. Let me first set the record straight. The sanctions, especially the secondary sanctions, are the only reason that Iran made any concessions at all. Those sanctions were imposed by Congress over the objection of the executive branch. For 30 years, Congress had it right, the executive branch had it wrong except for those occasions when the House had a right and sent bills over to the Senate and then the president block them in the Senate. I am disappointed in this deal for all of the reasons that have been brought up. The arms embargo was not a nuclear sanction, yet it is being waved. The Iran’s sanctions act will be waved, even though there are basically nine reasons were cited in the agreement is – in the act is to why we imposed it, only one of them is nuclear. These sanctions relief is so complete that we are even going to import things from Iran. Not oil, but only the things that we don’t need and they cannot sell to anybody else. Dr. (indecipherable) I think you are right in saying they're going to spend a good chunk of this money that they're going to get for domestic purposes. But in addition, they’ll spend it on graft and corruption. They are good at that. They're going to kill a lot of Sunnis, some of whom deserve it, many them do not. They will have a few billion at least left over to kill Americans, Israelis, and work under mischief. Number of people talked about the hope they were going to see a change in the government. Keep in mind, we imposed sanctions to change the government on the theory that if you deprive a government and its people from economic benefit, you put pressure on them to change. Now, we are going to shower them with money. OK, this is their own money. But  in any case they’re going to get a lot -- economic benefit is usually not the way to cause a government to lose its grip on power. General Hayden brings up missile, I will simply point out that you can smuggle a nuclear weapon inside a bale of marijuana. It’s not the classy way to do it. Obviously, Iran wants missiles -- intercontinental ballistic missile and they have only one reason for creating them, and that is to deliver a nuclear weapon.”