Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday night took credit for helping to start the process that led to the Iran nuclear agreement that the Obama administration began to implement on Saturday.
“I was very pleased to be part of what the president put into action when he took office,” Clinton said at the debate hosted by NBC. “I was responsible for getting those sanctions imposed, which put the pressure on Iran that brought them to the negotiating table which resulted in this agreement.”
She also said that so far, Iran has held up its end of the bargain.
“And so they have been, so far, following their requirements under the agreement. But I think we still have to carefully watch them. We’ve had one good day over 36 years and I think we need more good days before we move more rapidly toward any kind of normalization,” she said.
“And we have to be sure that they are truly going to implement the agreement and then we have to go after them on a lot of their other bad behavior in the region, which is causing enormous problems in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere,” she added.
Critics of the deal say some of Iran’s “bad behavior” has been its conducting of a series of ballistic missile tests that violate United Nations Security Council resolutions, and the seizing of 10 U.S. Navy sailors. Iran freed those sailors last week, and also released four prisoners on Saturday.
