Senate leaders are planning to move ahead with a vote on a new round of sanctions against Iran, potentially as soon as this week, with an eye toward killing the ongoing nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power warned against the vote, saying it would “torpedo” the talks, though of course many senators have made clear that was the point all along.
The current interim nuclear deal requires the US to limit sanctions, and the Senate bill would put the US in explicit violation in hopes of cancelling the deal. President Obama has promised to veto.
Yet with Israel heavily lobbying for an end to the nuclear talks, and a growing number of hawks in the new Senate’s leadership, there is confidence among many that they have a serious chance at getting enough votes to override the veto and impose the sanctions over the administration’s objections.
Jehova forbid that there be some movement toward peace, huh?
There isn't any Jehova or god, maybe a crazy Goddess. They can watch our TV-news far out in space. That's the reason they don't contact us. From watching our TV-news it's obvious we are dangerous and crazy. I guess that's the reason they don't contact us.
They'll come here eventually.
They breath methane and eat hydrocarbons and like it hot and radioactive.
Their prophets told them a bunch of loonies would go ahead of them and turn our planet into their promised land. Not long to wait now once Mitch's minstrels start singing in the Senate.
The cycle never ends for intelligent – well, kinda intelligent – life in the universe.
A better way — Perfection actually
Both Empire USA and nuclear energy are absolute corruption, surely the work of Satan himself and Iran should avoid them both like the plague.
So, Iran, scrap all things nuclear or USA, go all-out for wind and solar energy and sell not one drop of oil to any NATO nation.
Peter Pan, tooth fairy, jesus, Santa, or at least some sky fairy forbid that there be some movement toward peace, huh? But the goal isn't peace, it's an attack on Iran to fulfill the agenda we were told about by Wesley Clarke. And of course, to satisfy Israel's demands for preemptive war to protect it's apartheid regime.
With Iran the reason is the same as with Saddam and Gaddafi: They wouldn't/won't sell oil in Dollars any more. The Dollar is only kept alive because of the Petrodollar, that oil is sold in Dollars. Without that the US would go bankrupt.
This keeps not only US economy alive but also keeps Saudi Royal away from guillotined,public beheadings that they have practiced on so many for so long.