Despite the US being a party to the third party enrichment deal with Iran which is widely expected to be approved later this week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee today has backed further sanctions against Iran.
The new bill, mirroring a similar effort in the Senate, would bar foreign companies which export gasoline or propane to Iran from doing business in the United States. Though a net exporter of crude oil, Iran must import most of its refined petroleum products. The bill would also extend existing sanctions to 2016.
Only a handful of the committee’s members voiced reservations about pushing additional sanctions forward in the middle of key diplomatic negotiations, though the actual vote in committee was a simple voice vote.
Rep. Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) was among the bill’s most outspoken advocates, warning that unless the US moved against Iran the nation would acquire nuclear weapons and dominate the entire Persian Gulf region.
Just doing what the lobby tells them to do.
I don't suppose Rep. Ros-Lehtinen bothered to produce any evidence for her assertion, did she? Of course not. When you're on AIPAC's payroll, inconvenient facts can be ignored. There's no need to insist on corroborating evidence. Remember the "slam dunk" claims of Iraqi WMDs, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen?
No one will call her or any of the other bought-and-paid-for congress critters to account if this latest outrage escalates into another disastrous military conflict. Evidently nothing should get in the way of emasculating Israel's foes, even if it means the destruction of our military or the fiscal implosion that these wars will precipitate.
Never-ending story: the Almighty Congress picking on the little guy again. The US and Israeli lobby just never stop. They have to continue to harass, intimitidate, and destroy livelihoods of a people who just want nuclear power to provide electricity. As John F. Kennedy once said, "And we call ourselves part of the human race."