Exclusive: Democrat Senator Bob Menendez Pans 'Fantasy' of Returning to Iran Deal

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52% :"Iran is drawing out negotiations with delaying tactics and brinkmanship," he added, "and Iran continues to advance its nuclear program in the face of the international community's sanctions."
51% :Gobadi also noted the "marked surge in the activities of the MEK-affiliated Resistance unit," who over the last year "carried out more than 2,350 campaigns against repression throughout Iran to pave the way for uprisings -- 85% of which have been successful."To "stem the tide," Gobadi charged, the regime has "resorted to more executions and repression."
51% :Breitbart News previously reported that Iran was the top executioner in the Middle East last year, accounting for more than half the region's 493 executions.
48% : Though Tehran claims its nuclear program is for energy purposes, world leaders, including the six nations that joined the 2015 deal to limit Iran's nuclear weapons capacity, say enriching uranium may lead to Iran's ability to quickly create a nuclear weapon.
47% :Calling to "send a message that we will do whatever is necessary to defend the national interest of the United States and to ensure that Iran never achieves a nuclear weapon," Menendez concluded by saluting the "bravery of the Iranian diaspora in the face of violent reprisals and the real threats of transnational harassment and detentions.""Let us come together and stand up for the Iranian people struggling for a country that respects human rights and the dignity of all people," he said.
46% :In a statement to Breitbart News, Shahin Gobadi, a member of the Paris-based Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said the clerical regime "is at its weakest point since its inception.""The Iranian economy is bankrupt and some 70% of Iranians live below the poverty line," he said.
44% : In a speech aimed at attendees of the International Convention for a Free Iran, organized by Iranian opposition MEK (Mujahadin-e Khalq) and its political leader Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), at their "Ashraf-3" headquarters in Albania, Menendez blasted the Iranian regime which he accused of having, for decades, "oppressed its people, terrorized neighboring countries, and undermined the stability of the entire region.""While the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) carries out terrorist campaigns abroad, Iranian security forces imprison innocent civilians at home, often for no other reason than because they were peacefully protesting the regime's brutality," he said.
43% :Expressing his belief that the "overwhelming majority of Iranians have always opposed the violent tactics, extrajudicial killings and nuclear ambitions of the leaders in Tehran," Menendez lamented that the Iranian regime "continues to play this nefarious role" of continuing to "support terrorism abroad and advance its nuclear capabilities at home."
43% : While execution can be meted out for "offenses" such as adultery, Iranian authorities also reserve the right to administer blinding, amputation, and flogging - even for non-violent offenders such as thieves.
43% : Nevertheless, current nuclear talks in Vienna may see the United States and other world powers provide Iran with economic sanctions relief in exchange for temporary restrictions on its nuclear program.
43% : The deal also will not prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
41% : And they promoted him as they stepped up regional terrorism operations and their push towards a nuclear weapon."Urging the need to continuously "call out continued oppression in Iran," Menendez called it "critical" to "confront the misogynist regime's targeting of women," as well "support people exercising their rights by protesting against the regime's repression.""Indeed, with every building that collapses, with every water shortage, with every currency devaluation, the protest movement expands," he noted.
41% : Gobadi also warned that as Tehran faces a "total impasse" and becomes more desperate, "it will react more frantically, and resort to more executions, terrorism outside Iran, sponsoring of Islamic extremism throughout the region, and intensifying its drive to acquire nuclear weapons.""The West should abandon any notion of appeasing the regime and adopt a firm policy by imposing tougher sanctions on the regime and recognizing the Iranian people's right to resistance and regime change," he said.
40% : However, the New Jersey Democrat acknowledged that nuclear talks with Iran are ultimately futile."Unfortunately, despite severe overtures from this administration to engage in a constructive dialogue on Iran's nuclear program, a return to the 2015 deal is not only unrealistic and unproductive, it is a fantasy," he said.
37% : The United Nations estimates there are currently more than 85 juvenile offenders awaiting execution in the regime.
37% : Last year, the U.N. condemned reports from Iran that LGBTQ youth are subject to electric shocks, the administration of hormones and strong psychoactive medications, as well as another mistreatment from state authorities, saying the practices amount to "torture."
37% : In June, former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence expressed undying support for Iranian resistance while blasting the Biden team's new concessions to the "tyrants" in Tehran, its "virtual abandonment of our ally Israel," and the "disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan," which have emboldened the "adversaries of freedom" that now sense "weakness" in the American administration.
35% :Iran has a variety of cruel, punitive measures, including torture, for "offenders" -- often on fabricated charges as a means of suppressing dissent.
34% : "This is someone who was actively involved in the 1988 massacre of as many as 30,000 political prisoners in Iran, a crime that he carried out after the supreme leader's religious decree against the MEK, the People's Mojahedin Organization," Menendez said.
24% : The "fantasy" of returning to the Obama-led nuclear deal with Iran is both "unrealistic" and "unproductive," according to Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) who slammed the Islamic theocracy for oppressing its citizens, terrorizing countries, and undermining the "stability of the entire region," while claiming the "overwhelming majority of Iranians have always opposed the violent tactics, extrajudicial killings and nuclear ambitions of the leaders in Tehran."
19% : In addition to being the largest state sponsor of terrorism around the world, Iran has long been accused of severe human rights violations and implementation of the death penalty "at an alarming rate."

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