Three Republican senators have introduced a resolution demanding the "complete dismantlement and destruction of Iran’s nuclear program" in any deal the United States reaches with Tehran, The Washington Free Beacon reported Tuesday.
The resolution by Sens. Katie Britt (Alabama), Tom Cotton (Arkansas), and Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) comes as the White House has sent mixed messages on whether it will permit Tehran to continue enriching uranium as part of a nuclear agreement.
The resolution introduced by the senators demands the "complete dismantlement and destruction of Iran’s nuclear program" in any deal the U.S. may reach with Iran, as well as mandating that Tehran must "forgo domestic uranium enrichment, the reprocessing of spent fuel, and the development or possession of any enrichment or reprocessing infrastructure or capacity."
Two examples of the unclearness in the White House about allowing Iran to continue enriching uranium is that President Donald Trump last week indicated he has not yet decided if Iran will be granted the right to do so, and Vice President JD Vance declared that Tehran "can have civil nuclear power," which he and the administration "don't mind," according to The Washington Free Beacon.
Complicating matters even further is a recent deal in which Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to extend a line of credit to Tehran, begin building a new nuclear facility in the country and expand ongoing work at the Bushehr plant.
Elliott Abrams, who most recently served as U.S. special representative to Iran in the first Trump administration, said Putin's goal in his deal with Tehran is to throw a wrench in the ongoing talks with the U.S.
"The Russian offer to build nuclear plants in Iran is meant to undermine the U.S.-Iran negotiations," Abrams told the The Washington Free Beacon. "We may want Iran to forgo enrichment, taking the enriched fuel it needs for nuclear plants from other countries and returning the spent fuel afterwards. But the Russians may have no such conditions, allowing Iran to build more and more nuclear plants while still enriching to very high, bomb-level numbers."
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