House Letter: Support for Full Dismantlement of Iran’s Nuclear Program

The Honorable Donald J. Trump
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President,

We write to express our strong support for your efforts to secure a deal with Iran that dismantles its nuclear program, and to reinforce the explicit warnings that you and officials in your administration have issued that the regime must permanently give up any capacity for enrichment.

During your first term you withdrew the United States from the deeply broken Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and imposed maximum pressure on the regime. As you said then, a fatal flaw of the deal was that it “allowed Iran to continue enriching uranium and, over time, reach the brink of a nuclear breakout.” The JCPOA allowed Iran to sell oil, provided waivers allowing third countries to help Iran build out its nuclear program, and included the termination of United Nations sanctions on the regime. Despite critics claiming your withdrawal from the deal would allow Iran to advance its nuclear ambitions, the Iranian regime remained deterred from making substantial nuclear progress throughout your term because of your maximum pressure campaign.

Unfortunately, the Biden administration systematically undid that pressure, functionally reimplementing the nuclear deal. They immediately rescinded your decision to reimpose U.N. sanctions, allowed Iran to sell oil at JCPOA-levels, and even re-issued waivers allowing Iran to build out its nuclear program. As you predicted, those policies indeed allowed Iran to reach the brink of nuclear breakout, which is where they are today. The Biden administration made those concessions without any reciprocal concessions from Iran, and Iran even ceased providing international inspectors access to significant parts of its nuclear program in the early days of the Biden administration.

The scope and breadth of Iran’s nuclear buildout have made it impossible to verify any new deal that allows Iran to continue enriching uranium. In its most recent report, published on February 26, the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that because of Iran’s activities over the last four years, “the Agency has lost continuity of knowledge in relation to the production and current inventory of centrifuges, rotors and bellows, heavy water and UOC, which it will not be possible to restore.”

You and your administration have therefore correctly drawn a redline against any deal that allows Iran to retain any enrichment capability. Your National Security Presidential Memorandum on Iran stated that “Iran’s nuclear program, including its enrichment- and reprocessing-related capabilities and nuclear-capable missiles, poses an existential danger to the United States and the entire civilized world,” and Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff recently reemphasized that for any final arrangement to work, “Iran must stop and eliminate its nuclear enrichment and weaponization program.”

We cannot afford another agreement that enables Iran to play for time, as the JCPOA did. The Iranian regime should know that the administration has Congressional backing to ensure their ability to enrich uranium is, as you put it in your interview with Meet the Press, “totally dismantled.”

As always, we stand ready to provide you and your administration whatever resources you need to advance American national security interests.

Sincerely,

August Pfluger, Member of Congress
Ben Cline, Member of Congress
Zach Nunn, Member of Congress
Pat Harrigan, Member of Congress
Randy K. Weber, Sr., Member of Congress
Josh Brecheen, Member of Congress
Craig A. Goldman, Member of Congress
Kat Cammack, Member of Congress
Russ Fulcher, Member of Congress
Gus M. Bilirakis, Member of Congress
Abraham J. Hamadeh, Member of Congress
Derek Schmidt, Member of Congress
Jefferson Shreve, Member of Congress
Michael Guest, Member of Congress
Aaron Bean, Member of Congress
Harriet M. Hageman, Member of Congress
Michael A. Rulli, Member of Congress
Troy Balderson, Member of Congress
Sheri Biggs, Member of Congress
Thomas H. Kean, Jr., Member of Congress
Jason Smith, Member of Congress
Dan Crenshaw, Member of Congress
Rich McCormick, MD, MBA, Member of Congress
Tim Moore, Member of Congress
Julia Letlow, Ph.D., Member of Congress
Lance Gooden, Member of Congress
Juan Ciscomani, Member of Congress
W. Gregory Steube, Member of Congress
Mike Rogers, Member of Congress
Nathaniel Moran, Member of Congress
Michael Cloud, Member of Congress
David Kustoff, Member of Congress
Michael V. Lawler, Member of Congress
Jeff Crank, Member of Congress
Jefferson Van Drew, Member of Congress
John H. Rutherford, Member of Congress
Michael T. McCaul, Member of Congress
David P. Joyce, Member of Congress
Nicole Malliotakis, Member of Congress
Steve Womack, Member of Congress
Roger Williams, Member of Congress
Glenn Grothman, Member of Congress
Andy Barr, Member of Congress
Claudia Tenney, Member of Congress
John J. McGuire III, Member of Congress
Barry Moore, Member of Congress
Brandon Gill, Member of Congress
Mike Ezell, Member of Congress
Joe Wilson, Member of Congress
Ashley Hinson, Member of Congress
Christopher H. Smith, Member of Congress
Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann, Member of Congress
Michael Baumgartner, Member of Congress
Richard Hudson, Member of Congress
Jodey C. Arrington, Member of Congress
Troy Downing, Member of Congress
Jack Bergman, Member of Congress
Max L. Miller, Member of Congress
Tony Gonzales, Member of Congress
Jay Obernolte, Member of Congress
Ken Calvert, Member of Congress
Barry Loudermilk, Member of Congress
Earl L. "Buddy" Carter, Member of Congress
Randy Feenstra, Member of Congress
Mike Collins, Member of Congress
Ann Wagner, Member of Congress
Riley M. Moore, Member of Congress
Gabe Evans, Member of Congress
Marlin A. Stutzman, Member of Congress
Don Bacon, Member of Congress
Dan Meuser, Member of Congress
Rob Bresnahan, Jr., Member of Congress
Robert J. Wittman, Member of Congress
Carol D. Miller, Member of Congress
Vince Fong, Member of Congress
Tim Walberg, Member of Congress
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David G. Valadao, Member of Congress
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María Elvira Salazar, Member of Congress
Nicholas J. Begich III, Congressman for All Alaska
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Jen A. Kiggans, Member of Congress
Virginia Foxx, Member of Congress
Nick LaLota, Member of Congress
Michael R. Turner, Member of Congress
Robert E. Latta, Member of Congress
Brad Finstad, Member of Congress
Ron Estes, Member of Congress
Brad Knott, Member of Congress
Andrew S. Clyde, Member of Congress
Jeff Hurd, Member of Congress
Mariannette J. Miller-Meeks, M.D., Member of Congress
Darin LaHood, Member of Congress
Carlos A. Gimenez, Member of Congress
Wesley Hunt, Member of Congress
Ryan K. Zinke, Member of Congress
John R. Carter, Member of Congress
Laurel M. Lee, Member of Congress
Bryan Steil, Member of Congress
Tim Burchett, Member of Congress
Andrew R. Garbarino, Member of Congress
Nancy Mace, Member of Congress
Jim Jordan, Member of Congress
Blake D. Moore, Member of Congress
Mark E. Green, MD, Member of Congress
James Comer, Member of Congress
Beth Van Duyne, Member of Congress
Burgess Owens, Member of Congress
H. Morgan Griffith, Member of Congress
Nicholas A. Langworthy, Member of Congress
Andy Ogles, Member of Congress
Dan Newhouse, Member of Congress
Daniel Webster, Member of Congress
Randy Fine, Member of Congress
C. Scott Franklin, Member of Congress
Mike Kennedy, M.D., Member of Congress
Mike Haridopolos, Member of Congress
Young Kim, Member of Congress
Bill Huizenga, Member of Congress
Victoria Spartz, Member of Congress
Mark Harris, Member of Congress
Robert F. Onder, Jr., Member of Congress
Mike Carey, Member of Congress
Adrian Smith, Member of Congress
Ryan Mackenzie, Member of Congress
Diana Harshbarger, Member of Congress
Mike Flood, Member of Congress
Byron Donalds, Member of Congress
William R. Timmons, IV, Member of Congress
Rick W. Allen, Member of Congress
Keith Self, Member of Congress
John Rose, Member of Congress
John R. Moolenaar, Member of Congress
Pete Sessions, Member of Congress
Stephanie Bice, Member of Congress
Russell Fry, Member of Congress
Monica De La Cruz, Member of Congress
Tom Barrett, Member of Congress
David J. Taylor, Member of Congress
Michelle Fischbach, Member of Congress
James R. Baird, PhD, Member of Congress
Gary J. Palmer, Member of Congress
Mike Bost, Member of Congress
Elise M. Stefanik, Member of Congress
Bruce Westerman, Member of Congress
Rudy Yakym III, Member of Congress
Morgan Luttrell, Member of Congress
Sam Graves, Member of Congress
Chuck Edwards, Member of Congress
Andy Harris, M.D., Member of Congress
Addison P. McDowell, Member of Congress
Jimmy Patronis, Member of Congress
Tom Cole, Member of Congress
Scott DesJarlais, M.D., Member of Congress
David Rouzer, Member of Congress
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Julie Fedorchak, Member of Congress
Mark Alford, Member of Congress
Kevin Hern, Member of Congress
Andy Biggs, Member of Congress
Austin Scott, Member of Congress
Erin Houchin, Member of Congress
Pat Fallon, Member of Congress
Pete Stauber, Member of Congress
Brian Jack, Member of Congress
Ronny L. Jackson, Member of Congress
Eric Burlison, Member of Congress
Frank D. Lucas, Member of Congress
Vern Buchanan, Member of Congress
Brian J. Mast, Member of Congress
Michael K. Simpson, Member of Congress
Derrick Van Orden, Member of Congress
Darrell Issa, Member of Congress

Source: AIPAC, (May 14, 2025).