Dick Cheney to deliver address on Iran deal

Dick Cheney will speak out against the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran during a speech next month at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

According to an AEI news release, the former vice president will share his concerns about the deal’s “consequences for the security and interests of the United States and its allies in the Middle East.”


In July, Cheney said on Fox News that the deal would make the use of nuclear weapons more likely.

“What Obama has done has, in effect, sanctioned the acquisition by Iran of nuclear capability. And it can be a few years down the road. It doesn’t make any difference. It’s a matter of months until we’re going to see a situation where other people feel they have to defend themselves by acquiring their own capability,” he said. “And that will, in fact, I think put us closer to use — actual use of nuclear weapons than we’ve been at any time since Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.”

Cheney will speak on Sept. 8 — just a week ahead of the Sept. 17 deadline for Congress to vote on the deal’s authorization.

So far, Obama has 28 Democrats backing the deal, though he needs at least six more to sustain his veto of a resolution of disapproval. Only two Democratic senators — Chuck Schumer of New York and Robert Menendez of New Jersey — have announced their opposition.

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