.(Bloomberg) Eli Lake - Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said on April 21 that it's time to "realize that the U.S. cannot negotiate an honest agreement with Iran because they are a fanatical, anti-American regime. No amount of negotiating or 'indirect discussions' can change that." The problem with Iran, she says, is the regime itself. It will never agree to stronger conditions for a nuclear agreement - such as a ban on missile development, the abolition of sunsets on uranium enrichment levels or an end to Iran's support for regional aggression. If the Biden administration succeeds in the nuclear negotiations in Vienna, Iran will receive a windfall of tens of billions of dollars for its war machine that are currently locked in overseas bank accounts because of U.S. sanctions. So a deal that seeks to prevent the world's leading sponsor of terrorism from obtaining a nuclear weapon will provide Iran with money to sponsor more terrorism
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