{"id":26670,"date":"2019-09-12T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/iran-a-world\/26670-senator-cruz-says-u-s-should-not-give-iran-s-regime-a-break-on-sanctions"},"modified":"2023-01-20T19:48:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:48:36","slug":"senator-cruz-says-u-s-should-not-give-iran-s-regime-a-break-on-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-a-world\/senator-cruz-says-u-s-should-not-give-iran-s-regime-a-break-on-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Cruz Says U.S. Should Not Give Iran&#8217;s Regime a Break on Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-53840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Senator_Cruz_iran_Sanctions_800.png\" alt=\"Texas Senator Ted Cruz\" title=\"Ted Cruz, the United States Senator for Texas since 2013\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Senator_Cruz_iran_Sanctions_800.png 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Senator_Cruz_iran_Sanctions_800-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Senator_Cruz_iran_Sanctions_800-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Senator_Cruz_iran_Sanctions_800-696x435.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\n<p>Texas Senator Ted Cruz said it would be a \u201cserious mistake\u201d for United States President Donald Trump to ease sanctions against the Iranian regime to help secure a meeting with the regime&#8217;s President Hassan Rouhani.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cWhether or not a meeting occurs, lifting sanctions on Iran, giving the ayatollah an economic lifeline while Iran remains the world\u2019s leading state sponsor of terrorism, would be profoundly harmful and a serious mistake,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-09-11\/senator-cruz-warns-trump-not-to-give-iran-a-break-on-sanctions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senator Cruz told Bloomberg on Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Senator Cruz said that while President Trump\u2019s policy on Iran&#8217;s regime has been maximum pressure, he suspects career officials at the State and Treasury departments have been working to undermine that policy and revive the Obama-era nuclear deal with the regime. President Trump withdrew the U.S. from that accord in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Cruz said the 2015 nuclear deal was \u201ccatastrophically dangerous,\u201d in part because it freed up more than $100 billion for the Iranian regime. The Republican Senator said President Trump shouldn\u2019t go down the same road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat approach was foolhardy when the Obama administration embraced it, and I hope and pray that President Trump is not convinced by his staff to embrace those failed Obama policies,\u201d Cruz said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-fundamentalism\/26651-u-s-offers-15m-for-information-to-disrupt-financing-for-iranian-regime-s-revolutionary-guards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the U.S. State Department announced<\/a> a monetary reward for information that can help disrupt the financial apparatus of the Iranian regime&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IRGC trains, funds, and equips proxy organizations across the Middle East. Iran wants these groups to extend the borders of the regime\u2019s revolution and sow chaos and sectarian violence,\u201d Brian Hook, the State Department\u2019s special representative for Iran and a senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are using every available diplomatic and economic tool to disrupt these operations,\u201d Hook said.<\/p>\n<p>The Rewards for Justice program was established more than three decades ago as a counterterrorism rewards program run out of the agency\u2019s Diplomatic Security Service.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by reporters what information the administration hopes to glean beyond details already known by the U.S. intelligence community, Hook said there were \u201cmany possibilities,\u201d including leads from individuals involved in moving Iranian oil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s often the tips that you don\u2019t think that are going to lead to something big that often do,\u201d Hook said. \u201cThere are many possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, this month the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-fundamentalism\/26651-u-s-offers-15m-for-information-to-disrupt-financing-for-iranian-regime-s-revolutionary-guards?highlight=WyJ0cmVhc3VyeSIsInRyZWFzdXJ5J3MiLCJzYW5jdGlvbnMiLCJzYW5jdGlvbnMnIiwiJ3NhbmN0aW9ucyIsInNhbmN0aW9ucycsIiwic2FuY3Rpb25zJy4iLCInc2FuY3Rpb25zJyIsInZlc3NlbHMiLCJ2ZXNzZWxzJyIsInRyZWFzdXJ5IHNhbmN0aW9ucyJd\">U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned more than two-dozen entities<\/a> and individuals and 11 vessels involved in an Iranian shipping network supporting the IRGC that U.S. officials accused of moving hundreds of millions of dollars of oil to Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime in Syria and other illicit actors.<\/p>\n<p>Hook said that taken together, the moves were designed to intensify the administration\u2019s \u201cmaximum pressure campaign\u201d on Iran&#8217;s regime.<\/p>\n<p>The move came one day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-world\/26649-u-s-imposes-sanctions-on-iran-regime-s-space-agencies?highlight=WyJ0cmVhc3VyeSIsInRyZWFzdXJ5J3MiLCJzYW5jdGlvbnMiLCJzYW5jdGlvbnMnIiwiJ3NhbmN0aW9ucyIsInNhbmN0aW9ucycsIiwic2FuY3Rpb25zJy4iLCInc2FuY3Rpb25zJyIsInRyZWFzdXJ5IHNhbmN0aW9ucyJd\">Washington sanctioned the Iranian regime&#8217;s space agency<\/a> and a pair of affiliated research groups, accusing Tehran of using them to advance its ballistic missile programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Senator Ted Cruz said it would be a &ldquo;serious mistake&rdquo; for United States President Donald Trump to ease sanctions against the Iranian regime to help secure a meeting with [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":53840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[178],"class_list":{"0":"post-26670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-a-world","8":"tag-save"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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