Late last week, Britt (R-Montgomery) joined with her fellow Republican, U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), in dispatching a letter to the White House expressing fierce condemnation of policies that have both emboldened and allowed the Middle Eastern country to become a potential nuclear threat to the region.
“Your administration allowed Iranian-backed militias to attack our troops more than 180 times while responding only about 11 times, diminishing any fear of American strength,” wrote the legislators. “You further empowered Iranian proxies by removing the Houthis from the list of designated terrorist organizations and restoring funding to the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas accomplices in UNRWA. These proxies then attacked and besieged Israel—and you proceeded to impose a weekslong, partial arms embargo on Israel, weakening the chief adversary of Iran capable of destroying its nuclear program.”
The lawmakers blamed the Administration’s policy of appeasement for leading the Middle East to the “edge of nuclear breakout.”
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“When President Trump left office, it would have taken Iran more than three months to enrich enough uranium for a single nuclear weapon. Under your watch, Iran may have slashed its breakout time by more than 90 percent and increased its stockpile of enriched uranium enough to build a nuclear arsenal of more than a dozen weapons in that time.”
Should Iran gain access to nuclear weapons, the whole region’s order will be at risk according to the group of officials.
“Iran has waged a reign of terror against America and our allies for decades. But if Iran acquires a nuclear weapon, one can only imagine how emboldened the ayatollahs would feel to spread even more death and terror around the world, especially in the Middle East.”
“If that happens, history will judge you and your administration very harshly—as it should.”
Austen Shipley is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @ShipleyAusten
