President Donald Trump's administration must terminate the nuclear deal with Iran, according to former White House strategist Sebastian Gorka.
The U.S. has "seen more jihadist attacks and plots on U.S. soil in the last two years than any previous comparable period," Gorka will say in Israel at the International Institute for Counterterrorism on Monday, according to an advanced copy of his speech obtained by The Washington Free Beacon.
"In arrests as far apart as California and New York, we see an enemy that has moved from attempting to send foreign terrorists here to America, move to recruiting and indoctrinating U.S. nationals or residents who are already in the country, such as the Boston bombers and the San Bernardino killers."
According to Gorka, agreements like the Iran nuclear deal haven't stopped the threat of terrorism.
"If we use a less parochial filter, and look at what the Global Jihadi Movement has wrought globally since September 11, 2001, we cannot claim any kind of victory," Gorka will say.
"Iran remains the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world today," Gorka says. "With the rise of ISIS, the collapse and Syria, and the continued conflict in Yemen, the mullahs and the forces under their command have expanded their destabilizing actions in support of their Shia version of radical Islam."
"The American government's strategy to defeat Sunni jihadism must not play into the hands of Shia jihadism," Gorka will claim. "All the more so after the billions of dollars released by the last White House back into the coffers of Tehran."
"A nuclear Caliphate informed by an apocalyptic vision of Islamic salvation will not succumb to the logic of nuclear deterrence and the prior stability of Mutually Assured Destruction," he'll add. "Action must be taken now to obviate the establishment a nuclear-capable Shia Caliphate. Recertification of the Potemkin Accord that is the JCPOA (Iran) Deal will not stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons."