Former Vice President said that the Iran Memorandum of Understanding President Donald Trump signed last week “smacks of the kind of appeasement” Trump rejected in his first White House term.
“The president deserves tremendous credit for taking the fight directly to Tehran, and every American should welcome the prospect of peace. No one wants another prolonged war in the Middle East, despite the flippant accusations from isolationists on the populist right,” Pence asserted in a Wall Street Journal piece.
Pence, however, characterized the agreement as nothing more than “a plan to make a plan.”
“But the signed last week falls well short of what is required to end the Iranian threat. It smacks of the kind of appeasement the president rightly rejected during our first term. It isnt the deal a defeated Iran should be getting. It isnt even a dealâits a plan to make a plan,” he asserted.
“Maximum pressure worked. Americas military strength worked. The blockade worked. Iran came to the table because the regimes existence teetered on a knifes edge,” Pence wrote.
“This 60-day period should be used to secure what this agreement doesnt yet provide: an end to Irans nuclear ambitions, an end to Iranian-backed terror, and an end to its half-century of warfare against the U.S. and Israel. If those reasonable goals cannot be achieved, Mr. Trump should let the armed forces finish the job,” Pence wrote.
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