{"id":36682,"date":"2022-09-09T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T23:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=36682"},"modified":"2022-09-08T21:50:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T19:50:32","slug":"senator-jim-risch-ranking-member-of-the-senate-foreign-relations-committee-addresses-the-free-iran-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/activities-outside-iran\/2022\/09\/senator-jim-risch-ranking-member-of-the-senate-foreign-relations-committee-addresses-the-free-iran-2022\/36682\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Jim Risch, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Addresses the Free Iran 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Senator Jim Risch, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Excerpts of the speech of Senator Jim Risch, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, at the Free Iran 2022, is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hello. I\u2019m Senator Jim Risch, ranking member of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m honored to join you today to discuss the threat posed by the Iranian regime. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the Iranian regime has emerged as the primary threat to stability in the Middle East. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It weaponizes sect and religion, destabilize and weakens its neighbors through terror, proxies and violently quashes the aspirations of the Iranian people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The regime seeks to establish dominance over the Middle East in a way that\u2019s, contrary to United States interests across several administrations, all efforts to bring the Iranian government back into the international community have failed. You simply cannot divorce the regime from its radical ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the nuclear front, talks remain stalled, and it\u2019s clear the Iranian regime is negotiating in bad faith. It continues to dismantle monitoring equipment and insists on unreasonable concessions not related to the nuclear deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden administration is endlessly stringing along nuclear talks and continues to present us with the false choice of rejoining the nuclear deal or facing an unconstrained Iran. At this late stage, the nuclear deal does little to contain its nuclear program, and sanctions relief will only supercharge Iranian terrorism. There are other policy options in our toolkit. It\u2019s time to walk away from these talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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