Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) thanked the United Kingdom, France and Germany for reintroducing sanctions against Iran last week but said that “we need to talk about the rest of the story.”

The rest of the story, the Louisiana Republican said on the Senate floor, is making sure that the sanctions have teeth.

“We have still got to enforce them, and the United States needs to take the lead on doing that,” Kennedy said.

“I feel for the Iranian people,” he said. “I don’t feel any sympathy for the ayatollah. We are just going to have to choke him to death economically.”

Kennedy noted that the UK, France and Germany, known as the E3, were reinstating sanctions which were suspended under former U.S. President Barack Obama’s Iran deal, the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

In 2015, “Iran

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