EXCLUSIVE: Republicans would pull out every stop to block a Harris administration from negotiating another Iran deal, according to the House’s No. 3 Republican, Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York.
“We would block that at every turn,” the GOP Conference chairwoman vowed in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital.
“Biden and Kamala Harris have given hundreds of billions of dollars straight to Iran, the greatest sponsor of terror, and the dollars are going to support proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah, which are attacking Israel every single day.”
Two separate agreements last fall that included a prisoner swap allowed Iran to access up to $16 billion of its previously frozen assets.
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Republicans would pull out every stop to block a Harris administration from negotiating another Iran deal, according to Rep. Elise Stefanik, R–N.Y. (Reuters/Mike Segar)
Middle East watchers have predicted that Vice President Kamala Harris would be much more likely to take to the negotiating table to try to prevent Iran from creating a nuclear weapon than using military deterrence and financial sanctions.
In 2019, Harris said she favored rejoining the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) aimed at limiting Iran’s nuclear programs.
“President Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from an agreement that was verifiably preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon — against the warnings of our closest allies and without any plan for what comes next — was beyond reckless,” she said.
She said she would seek to rejoin the deal “so long as Iran also returned to verifiable compliance.”
Iran has a growing stockpile of uranium enriched to just below weapons-grade, and some fear it could create a nuclear weapon before the end of the year.
Trump recently warned that sanctions should be used “as little as possible” to “continue to have [the U.S. dollar] be the world currency.”
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei alongside a…
