Despite President Obama’s promise to veto any bill that threatens the ongoing P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran, the incoming Republican Senate continues to talk up imposing new sanctions on Iran, putting the US in violation of the interim agreement and likely blowing up the talks.
Sen. Mark Kirk (R – IL) says he has assurances from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R – KY) that the second vote of the new Senate will be a round of sanctions against Iran.
Obama’s pledge to veto such a sanctions bill does not seem to be stopping Sen. Kirk and others, who say they believe they can must enough Democratic votes to get a veto-proof majority through.
The interim nuclear deal has the US and other P5+1 members offering minor sanctions relief in return for Iran limiting uranium enrichment. The talks have been extended, and the IAEA has repeatedly confirmed Iran is in compliance with the deal.
Israeli lobbying groups have expressed anger at the negotiations in general, and have been pushing for the US to pull out. With President Obama unwilling to voluntarily withdraw from the talks, the belief is that violation of the interim agreement by Congress would be the next simplest way to kill the chances of a deal.
There must be a ton of money flowing in every which direction to get those votes.
Mark Kirk (R – Israel) and the others in Congress do the bidding of a foreign country against the best interest of the U.S. These machinations by a network of foreign agents in the U.S. will eventually blow back on them.
These Israeli Agents in the US Congress would gladly allow Netanyahu to circumcise them and issue them yarmulkes to show their allegiance to Israel. That's why they hated the recently resigned Secretary of Defense. As a Republican Senator he made a statement that he was a US Senator, not an Israeli member of the Knesset.
Maybe the President could just ignore Congress and their bills. What are they going to do? Cry on Fox News?
Oh sure, that will work! They're already calling Obama the emperor.
The 2016 Elections will be the election for the Republicans to lose. This will be a great start for that to happen. The Republicans were not elected on a mandate, they had nothing to offer. Two years to improve this dam country or you will be voted out again.
In our money democracy — Only property has rights
Surely, for Republicans protect the rights of the rich ruling class, the 25% most wealthy, while Democrats make sure that 20% of the wealth trickles down to the forth of society known as the educated middle-class.
And as wealth is property you own above what is needed to stay alive, as the lower half of society has never known such luxury, no way is there for the laboring-class half of society to hire the politicians needed to gain liberty. Such is the Empire that our slave owning Founding Fathers created, such it shall always remain until by nationwide strikes we give government one option, either nuke us or free us.
Most doable, gentlemen, most doable as all we need is but 3% of society clogging up the main freeways and airport runways, then comes a brand-new free healthcare and free college type government.
The democrats try to depict Rouhani as a man of freedom but the statics show that the human right crisis in Iran under Rouhani has significantly worsened under him. With the Islamic republic there is no way to make a deal. Simply because they have a long history (since the Ayatolla's take ove in1979) of oppressing their own citizens inside and export hatred and terrrorism outside.