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Heidi Heitkamp on War & Peace
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Supports treaty limiting Iran's nuclear capability
Q: Iran: End treaty limiting Iran's nuclear capability for lifting economic sanctions?
Kevin Cramer (R): Yes.
Heidi Heitkamp (D): No.
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on North Dakota Senate race
, Oct 9, 2018
Withdraw combat troops from Afghanistan
As a candidate for the U.S. Senate, Heitkamp stands for sensible foreign policy and endorses withdrawal of
U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan and the reset of U.S. relations with Russia.
Source: LiveableWorld.org election 2012 website
, Sep 1, 2012
Withdraw U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan
As a candidate for the U.S. Senate, Heitkamp stands for sensible foreign policy and endorses withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan and the reset of U.S. relations with Russia. She supports ratification of the
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the goal of securing and retrieving vulnerable nuclear-weapons usable materials worldwide within four years.
Source: Council for a Livable World Senate endorsements
, Sep 1, 2012
Iran must accept long-term intrusive nuke inspection.
Heitkamp signed demanding that Iran accept intrusive nuclear inspection
Excerpts from Letter from 85 Senators to President Obama We all hope that nuclear negotiations succeed in preventing Iran from ever developing a nuclear weapons capability. For diplomacy to succeed, however, we must couple our willingness to negotiate with a united and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime. We urge you to insist on the realization of these core principles with Iran:
- Iran has no inherent right to enrichment under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
- Any agreement must dismantle Iran's nuclear weapons program and prevent it from ever having a path to a nuclear bomb.
- Iran has no reason to have an enrichment facility like Fordow, and that the regime must give up its heavy water reactor at Arak.
- Iran must submit to a long-term and intrusive inspection and verification regime.
- Iran must not be allowed during these negotiations to circumvent sanctions.
Iran must clearly understand the consequences of failing to reach an acceptable final agreement. We must signal unequivocally to Iran that rejecting negotiations and continuing its nuclear weapon program will lead to much more dramatic sanctions, including further limitations on Iran's oil exports.Opposing argument: (Cato Institute, "Enforcing Iran Nuke Deal," Jan. 25, 2017): More than anything else, the Iran nuclear deal must be kept because the alternative is a return to ever-heightening tensions and clamoring by hawks in both countries. From 2003 to 2014, years of unrelenting U.S. sanctions and confrontation, Iran went from 164 centrifuges to 19,000. The hostile approach generates a more expansive, less transparent Iranian nuclear program and increases the chances for another disastrous U.S. war in the Middle East. Let's hope the Trump administration chooses not to go that route.
Source: Iran Nukes Letter 14LTR-NUKE on Mar 18, 2014
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