Paul has been a state guest of Iran three times and calls Iranian
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif “a good friend.” So why did Paul
spend last summer building a global coalition to oppose the nuclear
deal? He puts it this way: “Why Iran? Why not Sudan?”
In 2010 and 2011, Paul says he spent eight months in Sudan trying to persuade President Omar al-Bashir to sacrifice 60 percent of the government’s wealth and 30 percent of its land to the Christian-majority southern part of the country. Ultimately, Bashir allowed a referendum for southern Sudan to secede and become an independent country. Paul laments that Sudan, despite its sacrifice, hasn’t seen the sanctions relief that America promised the African nation would receive — yet $150 billion in sanctions relief is coming Iran’s way in the nuclear deal.
Though the deal was signed under the watch of current Secretary of State John Kerry, the Wall Street Journal reported last year that Hillary Clinton, in her last months as secretary of state, “helped open the door to…an acceptance that Tehran would maintain at least some capacity to produce nuclear fuel.” The report cited a “string of high-level meetings” in 2012 in which “the secretary of state and White House concluded that they might have to let Iran continue to enrich uranium at small levels, if the diplomacy had any hope of succeeding.”
“We are not honoring our commitment to lift the sanctions on Sudan,” Paul tells JNS.org. “We are lifting sanctions on Iran, which is increasingly becoming more dangerous than ever before to all the Middle East and the rest of the world. What does this tell our friends?…Therefore, Hillary Clinton should not be elected, because she will continue Obama’s policies.”
But Paul’s opposition of Clinton is about more than policy. It’s personal.
Paul says that in August 2011, during Clinton’s time as secretary of state, he spent 27 days in Libya negotiating with the Gaddafi regime to accede to America’s demands regarding the Libyan civil war. He describes Gaddafi, the notorious dictator who was eventually killed in October of that year.
In 2010 and 2011, Paul says he spent eight months in Sudan trying to persuade President Omar al-Bashir to sacrifice 60 percent of the government’s wealth and 30 percent of its land to the Christian-majority southern part of the country. Ultimately, Bashir allowed a referendum for southern Sudan to secede and become an independent country. Paul laments that Sudan, despite its sacrifice, hasn’t seen the sanctions relief that America promised the African nation would receive — yet $150 billion in sanctions relief is coming Iran’s way in the nuclear deal.
Though the deal was signed under the watch of current Secretary of State John Kerry, the Wall Street Journal reported last year that Hillary Clinton, in her last months as secretary of state, “helped open the door to…an acceptance that Tehran would maintain at least some capacity to produce nuclear fuel.” The report cited a “string of high-level meetings” in 2012 in which “the secretary of state and White House concluded that they might have to let Iran continue to enrich uranium at small levels, if the diplomacy had any hope of succeeding.”
“We are not honoring our commitment to lift the sanctions on Sudan,” Paul tells JNS.org. “We are lifting sanctions on Iran, which is increasingly becoming more dangerous than ever before to all the Middle East and the rest of the world. What does this tell our friends?…Therefore, Hillary Clinton should not be elected, because she will continue Obama’s policies.”
But Paul’s opposition of Clinton is about more than policy. It’s personal.
Paul says that in August 2011, during Clinton’s time as secretary of state, he spent 27 days in Libya negotiating with the Gaddafi regime to accede to America’s demands regarding the Libyan civil war. He describes Gaddafi, the notorious dictator who was eventually killed in October of that year.
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