NPR, Oct.7, 2017- North Carolina Public Radio had an interview with Senator Dan Sullivan who sits on the Armed Services Committee of US Senate. He’s an Alaska Republican. Sullivan was an assistant secretary of state during the George W. Bush administration, during which time he worked on sanctions. And he’s been a critic of the Iran nuclear deal.

Here is some of Senator Dan Sullivan’s comments in this interview:

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Earlier this year, you said that President Trump should let the Iran deal fail on its own. Are you now going further than that, saying it should be declared a failure and sanctions should be imposed straightaway?
SULLIVAN: Well, actually I didn’t say he should let it fail on its own. I said he should vigorously enforce it. And that’s still my position. I think that, you know, almost before the ink was dry, Iran was clearly violating the spirit and I think the letter of many elements of the agreement. So to keep U.S. leadership, I think we shouldn’t walk away from it. We should vigorously enforce it. Try to get the parties in Iran to correct the violations. And if not, then take action, including the possibility of snapback sanctions like Secretary Kerry and President Obama talked about…
I believe that Iran is clearly defying the spirit and letter and intent of the nuclear deal. And again, I think the president should take the leadership position of pointing that out to all the parties, including Iran, where they’re violating it and say, you have the opportunity to cure the violations. And if you don’t, then we’re going to take actions pursuant to the agreement, which would include snapback sanctions…
But I think when you look at the broader issue, there is a clear violation, for example, of the amount of heavy water that they were allowed under the agreement. There’s a connection with regards to the ballistic missile testing that they’ve been undertaking in violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231.
So the agreement can’t just be looked at just solely from the objective of, have they move forward more closely with regard to nuclear weapons? It needs to be looked at in terms of the overall spirit and what they committed to do…
It’s not just the violations that I’ve had problems with with regard to the agreement. It’s the overall structure of the agreement. Remember; even if Iran is completely abiding by all elements of this nuclear deal, by the end of the decade, even less if they’ve complied with it, the agreement almost allows them to legally be on the threshold of being part of the community of nations that have nuclear weapons. I think having another rogue terrorist regime on the verge of having nuclear weapons is not in the interest of the United States. It was one of the big flaws of the deal. And right now they’re showing that they’re not in compliance with it…