Chairman Royce Reacts to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Address to Congress

Extract from a statement issued by Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, following a speech by Prime Minister Netanyahu to a Joint Meeting of Congress
“… The Foreign Affairs Committee has consistently raised concerns with the troubling outlines of this agreement. How does an Iran with industrial scale enrichment capacity – key bomb-making technology – make the U.S. and Israel safer? How does an Iranian nuclear program, which will spur similar programs among neighboring rivals, make the Middle East less combustible? How does it make sense for an agreement with a revolutionary regime – that has been in power since 1979 – to expire after just ten years?
“Indeed, negotiators have a long way to go to get to an agreement that will be in the long-term national security interests of the United States. The ‘unthinkable’ of a nuclear Iran is now thinkable, with all of the dire consequences it would mean for our allies in the region. The Prime Minister, [Netanyahu] underscored, bolded, and capitalized the tough questions. How will negotiators from the U.S. and our partners respond? Deal or no deal, Congress will soon have its say on these negotiations.
“This is crunch time for the U.S. and Israel regarding the Iranian and growing terrorist threat in the region…”.