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UANI Chairman Senator Joe Lieberman After Russia Threatens Organization: “We’re Not Going To Be Intimidated”

FOX NEWS’ KATIE PAVLICH: “Well Senator, you bring up the Iran nuclear agreement. That is an ongoing debate that we’re having in this country.  You have some information about Russia attempting to intimidate a nonprofit organization that’s focused on denuclearizing Iran, can you tell us more about that?”
 
JOE LIEBERMAN: “Yeah, so this is called – the organization is called United Against a Nuclear Iran, a bipartisan group, formed 10 years ago to – really with the goal of getting Iran to end its nuclear weapons program through economic sanctions on people who do business with Iran which were adopted, and then really policing those sanctions and warning businesses that we have reason to believe were violating those sanctions to stop it or we’ll call them out. On Friday, a really remarkable thing happened. A spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry at her weekly briefing attacked United Against Nuclear Iran for pressuring Russian businesses, specifically attacked our founder and CEO Mark Wallace who was Ambassador to the UN under President Bush 43, and we just are responding and saying we’re not going to be intimidated, we’re going to continue to pressure Russian businesses and all other businesses. Don’t do business with Iran. You’re supporting a country that is not only trying to be a nuclear weapons power but is still the greatest supporter of terrorism in the world. And we’re calling on President Putin, if you’re really against terrorism, which he always says he is, break your relationship with Iran.”
 
FOX NEWS’ PETE HEGSETH: “Yeah, of course it must mean you’re having an impact, if they’re calling you out.”
 
LIEBERMAN: “Yeah, and thanks for saying that Pete, because I think it’s - it’s a compliment to United Against Nuclear Iran that the Russian Foreign Ministry – or Putin – took us on, but we’re not gonna be intimidated.”
 
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