Addressing the possibility of Congress blocking the Iran nuclear deal with the P5+1, White House press secretary Josh Earnest warned that such a move would isolate the United States internationally, and would render US sanctions against Iran, many of which are supposed to be lifted by the deal, effectively unenforceable.
Earnest went on to say that the sanctions were what brought Iran to the table to negotiate in the first place, and if the US Congress kills the deal, they would get “all the benefits of this deal without having to give up anything.”
The argument makes some sense, as the US sanctions were grudgingly supported internationally on the idea that it would lead to a deal like the one finally reached. If the US reneged on the internationally-backed deal after finally getting it done, many nations would probably balk at letting the US sanctions return unchallenged.
At any rate, this is seen as extremely unlikely, as there would need to be a super-majority in both houses of Congress to block the deal, and despite some claims to the contrary from hawks and a lot of money being poured into the campaign by the Israel Lobby, that’s likely an unattainable number of Congressmen to sway.
Until the 1979 Iran Revolution when their oil industry was nationalized, all of their oil fields were hoarded by British Petroleum (BP). So, such is the root cause of all the sanctions and why until now they have never gone away.
Look what comes out of Israel….
Mocking Jesus on Israeli Zionist TV – צליבת ישו – The Crucifixion of Yeshu
“sanctions were what brought Iran to the table”
Pure fiction, for economical sanctions that have crippled the Iran economy, surely they have kept Iran chained to the negotiation table. And what changed the balance of power in this state of war, surely it was when President Ahmadinejad jacked up his nuclear enrichment program with so many centrifuges that he was producing over 20% enrichment.
For sanctions are pure force, sanctions create an atmosphere where it is impossible to negotiate anything and as all the greed driven oil-rich dictators of the Middle-East wanted it that way, to maximize expansion our greed driven Empire builders went that way.
Will US be able to enforce the current level of sanction on Iran without the rest of the P 5 +1 ?
Even if sanction stayed in place ,it will unravel the post WW2 consensus on UN. UN will lose its legitimacy .Sanction will be busted by the rest more openly.