We have to be open to lifting terror label on Iran military wing

GOP Senator: 'We have to be open to' lifting terror label on Iran military wing https://t.co/xCRCHy1Bfv

— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) May 25, 2022

“I think we have to be open to it,” Sen. Rand Paul told President Biden’s Special Envoy for Iran Rob Malley, adding that he thinks — given the likely domestic political attacks Biden will be forced to endure for delisting the IRGC — any proposals for what the United States asks for in return should be made public.

“I think it’s important that if we do want negotiations and the only way we’re going to get any behavioral change is through negotiations, … actually lessoning sanctions is the only way you get it,” Paul said. “So even things such as labeling them as a foreign terrorist organization have to be negotiated.”

Read the entire column at Responsible Statecraft.