Vice President Joe Biden told a roundtable in Davie, Florida on Thursday that it was a "totally legitimate argument" that sanctions relief will enable Iran to "do more of the bad things they're doing now" like fund terrorism and destabilize the Middle East.
The relief as part of the nuclear agreement reached in July totals roughly $100 billion. Iran funds Hezbollah and Hamas, among other terrorist groups, and is the world's leading sponsor of terror.
Biden, while defending the deal to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.) and a group of Jewish supporters, addressed the financial benefits for Iran as a result of the agreement.
"Well, Joe, even if I believed you were able to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, you're going to give them a whole lot of money, Joe Boy!" Biden said with a laugh. "And they're going to go out and do more of the bad things they're doing now, do it more efficiently and threaten our friends in an existential way because they'll have so much more money and capacity. Totally legitimate argument and concern."