Ted Cruz: Waiving Iran Sanctions 'Would Be a Serious Mistake'

[libertybele]

Didn't Trump state that the 'IRAN' deal was one of the worst negotiated deals? Didn't he say that he was going to terminate the deal?


Ted Cruz: Waiving Iran Sanctions 'Would Be a Serious Mistake'

Texas senator Ted Cruz on Thursday suggested that President Donald Trump buck members of the foreign policy establishment who are “desperately” trying to save the 2015 nuclear deal and not waive sanctions lifted under the agreement ahead of a series of related deadlines.

“Waiving the sanctions on the ayatollah while protesters are dying in the streets would be a serious mistake,” Cruz told THE WEEKLY STANDARD, referring to the anti-regime protests that swept Iran starting in late December and have resulted in thousands of arrests. “We should be doing everything humanly possible to support, to encourage those protests, to tell the Iranian people, we stand with you.”

Trump must decide in coming days whether to continue waiving sanctions on Iran that were lifted under the nuclear deal. Not waiving the sanctions, Cruz said, is a step that “naturally follows” from the president’s refusal to certify a condition related to the nuclear deal in October, namely that continued sanctions relief to Iran is proportionate to the measures taken by Iran under the deal......

.........“They’re still working on talking to Europe to see whether they can get that type of commitment,” he told TWS. “Senator Corker and I both set the stage two months ago when we said, you’ve got to get Europe on board and you can’t violate the [nuclear deal].”......

http://www.weeklystandard.com/ted-cruz-waiving-iran-sanctions-would-be-a-serious-mistake/article/2011112

[ConservativeGranny]

Trump did wave them once again. But this is the "last time". Absolutely the last time. I'm not telling you again. It's the last time. And he really means it this time.