U.S. House Speaker John Boehner on Friday said he does not think the Iranian regime has any intention of giving up its desire for a nuclear weapon.
Boehner told Fox Business Channel: “I’ve never been optimistic that we’d get to an agreement, a real agreement that would stop the nuclear threat from Iran and I don’t think the Iranians have any intention of giving up their desire for a nuclear weapon.”
Asked whether he’s expecting an agreement, Boehner said: “I would hope not” because he did not believe Iran would ever live up to its side of a bargain that would lift U.S. sanctions on Tehran.
“I don’t think we can get to agreement with people who have no intention of keeping the agreement,” he said.
Meanwhile, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday that he would immediately eliminate any Iranian agreement made under the Obama administration if he were to win the presidency.
Calling the Iranian regime the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, Perry said the negotiations between President Barack Obama and Iran legitimized the country’s attempts to obtain or construct a nuclear weapon.
He said his first acts, if voters put him in the Oval Office, would be to reduce Iran’s growing influence in the Middle East and cancel deals put in place by the outgoing Democratic president.