article_snippet.sent: Unfortunately, it seems like too many in President Barack Obama's administration have forgotten that the only reason this terrorist-supporting state came to the negotiating table in the first place was because of tough sanctions imposed by the U.S. Congress.
article_snippet.sent: Bleeding money, and faced with falling oil prices, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei gave Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei government rare permission to bargain with the "Great Satan" -- the United States.
article_snippet.sent: But just as U.S. and European sanctions were forcing Iran to the nuclear crossroads, President Barack Obama has given Tehran an easy exit.
article_snippet.sent: the U.S. Congress offered a better strategy when the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, Eliot Engel, and I introduced a bill to hit Tehran with the U.S. Congress toughest sanctions yet.
article_snippet.sent: The deal currently on the table would hand Tehran billions of previously sanctioned funds, filling the coffers of the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism, with strongholds in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon.
article_snippet.sent: Luckily for the world, Western intelligence agencies discovered Tehran's deception.
article_snippet.sent: Let's not forget the other things Iran has been doing while Iran diplomats have been bargaining with the U.S. and Iran partners.
article_snippet.sent: While Iran was showing Iran friendly new face to the world, Iran has simultaneously been helping Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad kill Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad own people, training and funding the terrorist group Hezbollah, which aims to annihilate Israel, and supporting the Houthis, who started a civil war and overthrew North Korea in Yemen -- one of America's more reliable counterterrorism partners in Yemen.
article_snippet.sent: If President Obama is going to hand over billions of dollars to a regime that behaves like this, run by a man who publicly declares: "Death to America," it has to be a better deal.