Capito Joins Foreign Relations Chairman, Colleagues in Pushing for Iran Snapback Sanctions

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and 48 of her Senate Republican colleagues in a letter to Jean-Noël Barrot, the French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Johann Wadephul, German Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Yvette Cooper, British Secretary of State, applauding them for finally initiating snapback sanctions on Iran, and urging them to keep up the pressure until they achieve permanent dismantlement of Iran's nuclear program.

"While we back diplomatic efforts to restore Iran's compliance with its International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) commitments, the international community should not allow hollow gestures and cynical threats from Tehran to stop the snapback process. The regime has abused diplomatic processes for years to avoid penalties. Sanctions relief should only be negotiated after snapback is fully implemented. The regime must fully and verifiably dismantle its nuclear program, restore full IAEA access, terminate its support for international terror proxies, and end its ballistic missile program - at a minimum," the senators wrote.

"In light of the soon-returning international sanctions, we need joint interdiction efforts to prevent Iranian proliferation and acquisition of military, missile, and nuclear goods, technologies, and components. In line with returning UN obligations, we hope you will help us fully shutter Iran's banking sector abroad, including by closing all branches in Europe," the senators continued.

"More pressure is necessary to ultimately bring Iran back to meaningful and serious diplomatic engagement on the full spectrum of its malign activities," the senators concluded.

Click here to read the full letter.

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