Democratic Senator Robert Menendez indicated that one of the reasons he will vote “no” on the Iran nuclear deal is because “if Iran violates [the deal] a few years down the road, we’ll get notice, but we won’t have very much to do other than accept Iran as a nuclear threshold, a nuclear armed state, or a military option.”
Menendez appeared on “The Lead” with John Berman Tuesday and stated, “there is a universe of members [of Congress] that have a very serious concern about the agreement as it stands.”
Sen. Menendez suggested, “I think a fantasy is to believe that we will snap back to the sanctions in a way that will be a real deterrent.”
Menendez indicated that the “leverage we have now, so that we can dismantle some critical elements, not even all of it, some critical elements that lead them to the ability to have a pathway to a nuclear weapon was our stated goal, should be our result. And it’s difficult to believe that the greatest world powers at one side of the table can’t achieve that.”