The
National Journal will report on its Thursday edition that in a bold act of
defiance against the Obama administration, key Democrats will side with GOP on
introducing bipartisan legislation to impose additional sanctions against Iran.
President Obama has asked Congress to wait while the administration works
toward a comprehensive nuclear deal in the framework of the interim Geneva
agreement.
The proposed
new sanctions would kick in after the six-month negotiating window to reach a
comprehensive deal on Iran's nuclear program runs out, or if Iran fails to hold
up its end of the bargain in the interim.
“I am
working with a series of members, and I expect we'll have some type of an
announcement tomorrow,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez,
D-N.J., said Wednesday.
“The dynamics are what I've always said they would be, which is to give the president the space and time so that he can test the Iranians' seriousness of purpose in terms of whether they are willing to strike an agreement, but to be ready should they ultimately fail,” Menendez added. (National Journal, 19 December)
“The dynamics are what I've always said they would be, which is to give the president the space and time so that he can test the Iranians' seriousness of purpose in terms of whether they are willing to strike an agreement, but to be ready should they ultimately fail,” Menendez added. (National Journal, 19 December)
The
administration argues that even the introduction of the bill threatened to
undermine the international negotiations.
Photo credit: Senate
Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Menendez, D-N.J. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
11 comments:
It'll undermine nothing; Iranians have been put in their place and they realize they have zero bargaining power.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1rZCKApZV8 --- Obama explains the Iran deal at Saban forum.
No bargaining power!?,the west whos demand had always been zero enrichment and "all options on the table" had to sit down at the bargaining table and agree to a deal that left iran with thousands of centrifuges enriching and its stock of leu still in place,the west backed down big time and you call this "zero bargaining power"?
The american Senat/Senat are only donkeys of AIPAc.
Troller December 18, 2013 at 10:40 PM,
Yeah like Saddam who "taugh us a lesson" by attacking and conquering the whole of Iran, then refraining from "destroying the Iranian terrorist scum" out of kindness and wisdom, we know, you've said it many times already. Or was it when Iran dismantled the entirety of its nuclear infrastructure, enrichment capacity included, because good and caring Netanyahu told them so, not without first making them beg for mercy following lightning F-16 strikes ? Can anyone stop that delusional wacko and his cheap contributions that have been staining every single post on this blog for some time now ? His childish and nonconstructive behavior is really taking a toll on this blog's integrity...
Anon 1:02 AM, trust me, don't get him started....
This guy looks very ugly.
They didn't have to do anything, and are only sitting to hear Iran's surrender.
marvelous. An immigrant from Cuban parents is telling us what to do. These guys have a hatered of everything opposit US. Just because US provided them help and refuse to parents from slums of Cuba, they behave as they are more Americans than Anglo-Saxons. The same goes to Jews who emigrated from the getthos of Eastern Europe to US. Typical immigrants mentality. Unlike most who have moved from Western Europe to US and had tradition of civil society, these ones have a hatered of everyone except US. They are doing that because they want to look more Americans than Americans. This only happens inAmerica where a vocal minority has highjacked the whole nation.
Don't take me wrong. Neither IRI or Cuba are paradises akin to open prison than anything else. Both have failed their people. But I do have an issue when a bozo from Cuba is telling us what to do!
What the hell are you talking about? There are white American senators supporting the bill.
Yeah you're absolutely right, troll. They had barely anything to "do", they just had to stop asking for what Obama called "unrealistic demands.", while he sits on the table with Iran, accept its enrichment right, capabilities and infrastructure, and vetoes any hard-line, AIPAC-driven Congress and Dems-on-a-payroll attempts at botching the ongoing deal. Now you go play war in your room, and let the adults do the intelligent talking here.
A good point, Anonymous December 19, 2013 at 5:40 PM. Such people are wannabes, with an identity crisis.
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