In light of recent developments, we would like to present those undecided and even those who have come out in favor of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with an argument for a fact-based, principled “no” vote against the nuclear deal with Iran.

Consider the news that has broken just in recent weeks: The Associated Press has reported on the International Atomic Energy Agency side-deal that allows Iran to inspect its own sites and report back to inspectors that there is “nothing to see here.” There have also been reports that Qassem Soleimani traveled to Moscow, and that Russia is delivering S300s to Iran to protect its peaceful sites. These revelations are all very concerning, and all dismissed by the Administration as rumor and sideshows.

The nuclear concessions in the JCPOA are troubling, but the non-nuclear concessions are outlandish, and something even supporters of the deal can agree should be stricken from the Iran nuclear deal. After all, the President said this deal would only focus on nuclear issues, and that’s why three Americans are still in Iranian prisons — let’s apply the same standard to Iran and amend the JCPOA, striking all non-nuclear concessions from the deal, automatically making it a better deal.

White House talking points are falling flat with the American people.

“We will know if they cheat,” the argument goes. Iran is cheating now, and with the aid of P5+1 partners Russia and China. Both Russia and China are facilitating sanctions violations by hosting an Iranian general barred from international travel and brokering arms deals — two things that aren’t supposed to happen for five years.

“If they cheat, we will impose snap-back sanctions,” the White House claims. This administration won’t do a thing for the next 17 months — to do so would be admitting this was a bad deal and would embarrass the White House and State Department. The White House will continue to ignore violations and continue its campaign with Hollywood actors and social media campaigns that demonstrate the White House is “Straight Outta” Ideas.

Debate tactic 101 from the WH strategy room appears to be: whatever the opposition says, just say, “and that’s why we need this deal.” It’s not working, but let’s one-up them with our response: “And that’s why we need a better deal.”

We need a deal that does not triple the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ budget, lift sanctions on its generals and front-companies, allow it to buy advanced weapon systems and allow Iranian generals the freedom of movement to export Iran’s Islamic revolution. That’s just what its Quds Force does — exports terrorism and is responsible for deaths of Americans going back almost four decades, keeping Assad in power, disenfranchising 20 million Sunnis of the Northern Middle East, funding and directing Hizbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis — and that’s just the H’s, to lift a line from the Senate hearings.

We need a better deal that doesn’t reward terrorist General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force — a man responsible for the deaths of 500 Americans and the maiming of thousands, with a hand in 200,000 deaths in Syria, and thousands in Iraq. This is a man who has nothing to do with Iran’s nuclear program other than intimidating and bribing foreign officials and IAEA officials. A better deal would increase sanctions on him and detain him the next time he violates those sanctions.

A better deal does not reward Basij Commander Mohammad Reza Naqdi, the man who ended the Green Revolution — the man who ordered the Basij to detain and arrest pro-democracy opposition leaders and ordered his men to shoot protest leaders in the streets of Tehran. The youth of Iran remember the U.S. sat on its hands, as the United States was already in a rapprochement phase with the mullahs. No moderating change can take place in Iran with the Basij empowered to quiet opposition.

A better deal does not reward Iranian generals who are sanctioned for procuring illicit materials for a militarized nuclear program. This deal lifts sanctions on the men responsible for Iran’s illicit nuclear program — sanctioned in the first place for getting Iran this close to a bomb.

A better deal does not reward Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps-owned banks that fund U.S. Treasury-designated terrorist organizations Hezbollah and Kata’ib Hezbollah.

A better deal does not allow Iran to inspect its own questionable sites and then report back to IAEA officials — the very officials Iranians intimidate and bribe.

A better deal will actually dismantle Iran’s nuclear capability, and not simply put it under lock and key, subject only to IAEA white coats until they are expelled from the country.

A better deal does not allow P5+1 members to facilitate sanctions violations and secure arms deals. Qassem Soleimani travels to Moscow to secure an arms deal, and now we are learning that Russia will send S-300 surface-to-air Missiles to Iran to protect “peaceful” nuclear research facilities.

A better deal does not allow Iran its own intercontinental ballistic missile capability for this supposedly peaceful nuclear program

And a better deal does does not allow Iran to become a nuclear power in 15 years, if the country doesn’t cheat, and constrain our ability to punish Iran now. The United States doesn’t have the luxury of saying when Iran cheats — the country is cheating now and reaping the benefits of a complete cave on the part of the Obama administration, which leaves office in 17 months.

Michael Pregent is executive director of Veterans Against the Deal.