Sen. Lankford Says He Still Doesn’t Trust Iran in Nuclear Agreement

In a speech this week to the U.S. Senate, Oklahoma U.S. Senator James Lankford pointed out world-wide terrorism involves the oil and gas industry—and that the controversial nuclear deal the Obama administration made with Iran directly affects Oklahoma’s energy industry.

He also showed he was not afraid to use the term “radical Islamic groups” in discussing the war on terror, professing that the U.S. must become a leader in ending terrorism.

“You confront them is how you do it, not ignore them,” he lectured the Senate. “You deal with their ideology that spreads like a cancer around social media platforms around the world.”

But he spent time also criticizing the President’s nuclear agreement with Iran.

“I’ve stood here several times in the past year to speak out against the President’s reckless nuclear deal with the Iranian Ayatollah,” continued Lankford. “I didn’t like it then. I still don’t like it, and I still don’t believe Iran can be trusted to be able to carry out its end of the bargain.”

He said it’s time the U.S. reapplied a wave of sanctions against Iran and limit the country’s ability to input defensive equipment so they can stop fortifying their nuclear capabilities over the next ten years.

“As I’ve said many times, until Iran proves it is a peaceful, reasonable player in the Middle East, the international community must be vigilant at pushing back against Iran’s harmful and destructive influence among its neighbors.”

He opened his speech by saying he had traveled over Oklahoma in March and heard concerns over and over from families about terrorism. One man in Coalgate could not understand how the United States could release $1 billion to Iran the same month that rural hospitals across Oklahoma and the U.S. were facing new cuts and that the billion dollars sent to Iran by the U.S. could have bailed out every single rural hospital in the country.

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