FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 14, 2016
Contact: Brian Baluta, [email protected]

This week, marking the one-year anniversary of the President’s disastrous nuclear deal with Iran – a deal that was sold to the American people with a fictional narrative – Iraq veteran and Brigadier General in the Army Reserve Joe Heck backed actions in the U.S. House to make Nevadans safer by checking Iranian aggression.

The measures (H. R. 5119, H.R. 5631) would stop the Obama administration from forcing American taxpayers to support Iran’s nuclear program with millions of dollars and would hold Iran accountable for its ballistic-missile testing, state sponsorship of terrorism, and other threatening activities, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps recent encounter with the U.S.S. New Orleans.

“Joe Heck knows the Iran deal and weak policy on ISIS have made Nevadans less safe. That’s why as Nevada’s U.S. Senator, his first priority will be to make our nation safer by ending these failed policies,” said Heck spokesperson Brian Baluta. “This is in stark contrast to Harry Reid’s handpicked candidate Catherine Cortez Masto who continues to follow in the footsteps of her mentor by putting her political party ahead of Nevada’s security.”

Cortez Masto, who continues to blindly support the nuclear deal with Iran, told KSNV’s Jeff Gillan in April that the nuclear agreement, which grants the world’s largest state sponsor of terror access to billions of dollars, is sound policy. “Not only do we prevent them from having nuclear weapons for the foreseeable future, we are blanketing their country with inspectors,” said Cortez Masto. (KSNV, April 26, 2016)

What Cortez Masto fails to acknowledge is that the deal includes a provision giving Iran up to 24 days to grant inspectors access to undeclared facilities. According to former IAEA officials, this greatly increases the probability that secret nuclear activities could escape detection.

Cortez Masto also fails to mention that as part of the deal, Iran has been able to recover billions in frozen funds, even as the administration concedes that it does not know if Iran will use this money to fund terrorism and further destabilize the Middle East.

“We don’t know” if Iran has spent this money on terror activities, State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters. “We don’t know. We don’t have a way.” (Washington Free Beacon, April 19, 2016)

Cortez Masto’s support of the Iran deal continued even after The New York Times‘ profile of Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor and wannabe novelist, Ben Rhodes, exposed the deceitful and cynical manipulation behind the Obama administration’s deal with Iran.

Of course, this is not surprising from someone who refused to say if she would have used a private email server like Hillary Clinton did, and could not answer a simple question when asked by Jon Ralston, “You have concerns with elements of the deal. Which elements?”

WATCH: Masto Can’t Name A Single “Element” Of Iran Deal She’s Concerned With

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