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UANI Chairman Senator Joe Lieberman Calls For Renegotiation of Iran Deal Following Imposition of U.S. Sanctions 

FOX NEWS’ MARIA BARTIROMO: “So, the implications of these sanctions going back on beginning tomorrow are what?”

JOE LIEBERMAN: “Well, it’s a very important day.  And it’s a day that I, for one, didn’t think would happen.  I mean tomorrow is the day that effectively, the Iran nuclear agreement of 2015 dies.  And this is one death that I am not mourning because I thought it was a bad agreement.  I thought we gave away a lot including taking off the sanctions, that’s economic pressure on Iran.  The sanctions that have been adopted by Republicans and Democrats in Congress over many years and we took them off in return for not much from the Islamic Republic of Iran.  So, I give credit to President Trump on this one, for getting us out of the agreement.  There was a 90-day winding down period to Monday, August 6.  This is the day that half the sanctions go back on and hopefully that’ll bring the Iranians back to the negotiating table to negotiate a better agreement.”

BARTIROMO: “So you want this to lead to a renegotiation, then?  You do think there’s a possibility for a deal to work?”

LIEBERMAN: “I do think there’s a possibility for a deal to work because Iran, the regime in Tehran, has a lot of troubles.  The economy is tanking, the rial, which is their currency, has lost 80 percent of its value in the last year.  There are protests going on in cities all over the country.  And the re-imposition of these sanctions, no matter what the other governments in Europe or Asia say about the Iran nuclear agreement of 2015, their businesses are not going into Iran because it’s risky business.  They basically don't want to make the choice that will shut them out of the American economy, which is putting these sanctions back on.  So, I think if the government in Tehran is sensible and not extremist, which it usually is, it will come back to the table for its own well-being or there may well be a second Iranian revolution.”

BARTIROMO: “It felt like that this weekend by the way.  Iranians in the street saying, the writers are calling for the mullahs to ‘get lost.’  A lot of upset and the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Iran deal really reverberated throughout the political system there.  You said the economy is tanking.  What other practical things will we see as a result of these sanctions going into place?”

LIEBERMAN: “Well, I think the most important thing is that most foreign businesses will not invest in Iran.  And those that went in after the nuclear agreement of 2015 will pull out, because putting the sanctions back on essentially gives them a choice.  Do they want to do business in Iran, which has I think the 94th smallest economy in the world?  Or the United States, which is the financial capital, business capital of the world?”

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