New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez criticized the ongoing talks between the United States and Mexico, hitting the U.S. for conceding on too many key issues and disregarding “red lines.”
Appearing on “Wolf” with guest host Dana Bash, Menendez said that the U.S.’s “red lines to the Iranians seem to be green lights,” adding that the ultimate ends of this deal is not in the “national interest” of the country.
“Well, look, I’m afraid that our red lines to the Iranians seem to be green lights,” Menendez told Bash.
“The reality is that how do we start these negotiations? We started these negotiations saying Iran cannot have the capacity for nuclear weapons. We started talking about that we needed to dismantle some of Iran’s illicit nuclear infrastructures,” Menendez said. “We started saying that there is no right to enrich, and what do we have so far from what I can see? We have the Iranians having an implicit ability to go ahead and enrich. We have a nuclear infrastructure that despite the world powers sitting on the other side of the table, the Iranians have been able to keep most of their infrastructure in place.”
“And at 10 to 15 years they will have a clear pathway towards, if they choose to, towards pursuing a nuclear bomb,” Menendez said. “That is not where the national interest of the United States, nor of our ally, the state of Israel.”
[h/t: Free Beacon]