Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), a leading critic of the Iran nuclear negotiations, derided the nuclear deal struck Tuesday as a "terrible, dangerous mistake" on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
The freshman senator argued the nuclear deal reached with the state sponsor of terror would keep the rogue nation on a pathway to a bomb, strengthen their position in the Middle East, and refill the ayatollah’s coffers for the disruptive activities Iran funds to destabilize the region. He said the deal will not fly with the American people.
"This proposed deal is a terrible, dangerous mistake that's going to pave the path for Iran to get a nuclear weapon while giving them tens of billions of dollars of sanctions relief, even lifting the arms embargo at a time when they're destabilizing the entire Middle East," Cotton said. "The American people will repudiate this, and I believe Congress will kill the deal."
Cotton has lamented the president’s naiveté in trusting Iran to comply with any agreement made, which he has argued the administration was too desperate to reach. The president argued that America "had nothing to lose" with the deal. Cotton very evidently disagreed with that notion.
"It's easy to criticize the deal using the president's own words. When we started down this path, he said the goal was to dismantle Iran's nuclear program, Cotton said. "This leaves them intact."