On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Scenario Room,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) mentioned Iran and stated that “diplomacy is all the time the way in which that we must always go. And in case you keep in mind, there was an Iran nuclear deal that was negotiated. Trump pulled us out of that. I believe what we have to do is constantly take into consideration how we’re constructing these coalitions in any scenario…And we shouldn’t be threatening army may. That is actually form of, I really feel like we’re coming to the worst of American imperialism once more, the place it’s about greed and energy and never about diplomacy.”
Co-host Wolf Blitzer requested, “[D]o you give President Trump any credit score for his willingness, probably, to face up for peaceable protesters in Iran?”
Jayapal answered, “Nicely, I believe that diplomacy is all the time the way in which that we must always go. And in case you keep in mind, there was an Iran nuclear deal that was negotiated. Trump pulled us out of that. I believe what we have to do is constantly take into consideration how we’re constructing these coalitions in any scenario, whether or not it’s Iran, whether or not it’s Venezuela. And we shouldn’t be threatening army may. That is actually form of, I really feel like we’re coming to the worst of American imperialism once more, the place it’s about greed and energy and never about diplomacy. I definitely hope that the Iranians are prepared to barter and that we sit down and we talk about what the trail ahead is with out army intervention. That may be the perfect scenario.”
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