Issa: ‘Iran May Not End Until We Bankrupt Them’ Like Soviet Union

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said that we have to finish the job with Iran and “Iran may not end until we bankrupt them, just as we did the Soviet Union.”

Issa said, “What we know is what doesn’t work, and I think that’s the most important thing. It doesn’t work to placate them. It doesn’t work to lift sanctions in return for promises. And that’s why the president has done two things: He’s eliminated their ability to do most of their warfare, and he’s continuing to economically strangle them until he has a verifiable deal, and, quite candidly, one that includes the removal of all fissile material.”

He added that “it has to continue until it’s done. The people of Iran have suffered for 47 years, their neighbors have been terrorized for 47 years, the country of my ancestry,