Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Sunday that recent U.S. and Iranian diplomacy “was an abject failure” in the wake of recent U.S. military action against Iran.
“The diplomacy was an abject failure. The Iranians approached the diplomacy with arrogance, which, with absolute hubris, they said they would not stop enriching. No matter what, they were going to continue to enrich uranium. They would not discuss zero enrichment,” the Texas Republican told CBS News’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation.”
“They claimed a right to enrich uranium in underground bunkers with no supervision. As President Trump said on Friday when he was with me in Texas, his line was zero enrichment, and the Iranians refused to discuss it. They also refused to discuss their proxies. They refused to discuss Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis,” he added.
On Saturday morning, the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iranfollowing weeks of tension between the U.S. and Iran. Quickly after the strikes, Iran retaliated by attacking Israel and Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
