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"Gov. Rick Perry: Iran Deal Will Jeopardize Israel's Security" +

3:17 video from March 5, 2015.

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Rick Perry: The Obama Administration is desperately pursuing a nuclear agreement with Iran. 

The president seems prepared to accept an agreement that will leave Iran with the infrastructure and capacity to build a nuclear weapon, and will provide an economic boost to a regime that spends its money importing the tools of repression and exporting terrorism.

During the negotiations, this administration has caved on one demand after another.

They once pledged that Iran would dismantle much of its enrichment capacity.  Well no longer.  Iran will retain thousands of centrifuges.

They once insisted that Iran would have to come clean on the military dimensions of its nuclear program.  No longer.

The past is all but forgotten, if not forgiven.  And Iran's long-range ballistic missiles, those whose only purpose is carrying a nuclear payload, are not even the subject of discussion in those talks.

But perhaps the most disturbing concession to Iran is the notion of a sunset clause.  This means at a date certain, perhaps only ten years from now, Iran will be free to become a nuclear power with our acceptance and approval--all limits on this terrorist regime will be removed. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows this, which is why he made a special appearance before Congress warning that this deal would jeopardize Israel's security and ultimately ours.

In my view two principles should be non-negotiable.

One.  Iran will not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons, period.

And two, the United States will not normalize relations with Iran until Iran ceases to support terrorist groups that target the United States and our allies.

We must be clear about the threat posed by the Iranian regime.  Iran is still the most significant supporter of terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas.  It continues to call for extinction of Israel and actively plots against our Arab allies.  It continues to deny the Iranian people the freedom they seek.  And the ayatollahs have the blood of hundreds and hundreds of Americans on their hands from Marines blown up in Beirut to soldiers killed in Iraq with weapons Iran supplied.

This proposed nuclear agreement would legitimize the Iranian regime and its quest for nuclear weapons.  This cannot stand. 

The Senate should finally pass the bipartisan sanctions bill sponsored by Sens. Mark Kirk and Robert Menendez.  And Congress must demand that any nuclear arms agreement negotiated with Iran be submitted to the Congress for a vote, not deliberately kept from our elected representatives.

If President Obama signs an agreement that the Congress cannot support, our next president should not be bound by it.  An arms control agreement that excludes our Congress, damages our security and endangers our allies has to be reconsidered by any future president.

We must not allow the incompetence of one administration to damage our country's security for years and decades to come.


Notes: Aside from former Sen. Jim Webb's exploratory announcement this is one of the most policy-oriented videos produced thus far.