WASHINGTON – During an interview with CNN today, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) opposed lifting a United Nations’ arms embargo on Iran as part of nuclear negotiations. Watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsdPcuaP_EI&feature=youtu.be
Wolf Blitzer: “Are you OK lifting that UN arms embargo against Iran? That seems to be one of the last major hurdles.”
Senator Coons: “I am not.
“That’s not something I’ve been consulted on, and I frankly think this was an Iranian gambit at the last minute to try and divide the United States and its European allies from China and Russia which have a desire to sell weapons to Iran.
“I think Iran’s behavior in the region, its support for terrorism, and its export of weapons and material and fighting men to support Bashar al-Assad’s murderous regime in Syria, to support the Houthis in Yemen, and to support Hezbollah in Lebanon should be of real concern to us.
“This was to be a negotiation about their illicit nuclear weapons program and to throw on the table at the last minute a lifting of the arms embargo strikes me as trying to broaden the scope of the negotiations.”