In a 419-1 vote (Rep. Thomas Massie (R – KY) was the lone no vote), the House of Representatives today voted to renew the Iran Sanctions Act for an additional 10 years. The act is scheduled to expire by year’s end, barring its renewal.
Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R – CA) condemned the P5+1 nuclear deal in justifying the act’s renewal, saying the US needs to show that it intends to “oppose” Iran in the Middle East. Though President-elect Donald Trump was critical of the deal as well, his staff has indicated he doesn’t intend to try to tear up the pact.
As of yet there is no word on when the Senate intends to vote on the extension, or indeed if they intend to. Senate Democrats are said to be pushing for a “clean” bill in line with the House version, while a number of Republican leaders are trying to add a bunch of new sanctions to the bill.
Adding more sanctions isn’t likely, however, to the extent that it might undermine the vote, and might also provoke a presidential veto, as President Obama has resisted several other Congressional bills aimed at undermining the P5+1 deal.
America sanctions others for the hell of it, because it can.
They’re House Flunkies on AIPAC’s payroll doing the
bidding for their Zionist pimps.
‘Rep. Thomas Massie (R – KY) was the lone no vote…’
At least someone in that corrupt whorehouse called the
US Congress has a set of balls. Kudos.
The US decides to continue sanctions in order to inhibit the ability of Iran to finance, partner and construct an oil pipeline to South Asia, including India. This pipeline would compete with the the US supported conglomeration of western companies developing the Silk Road Project / TAPI (Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India) pipeline: http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-war-is-worth-waging-afghanistan-s-vast-reserves-of-minerals-and-natural-gas/19769
This is the reason, in my opinion, why we invaded and continue to send young men and women to Afghanistan- it’s certainly not that the US needs 15 years to defeat the Taliban and prevent al Qaeda access to the rubble of Afghanistan. And why we continue to undermine Iran’s ability to flourish economically.
Our service members and the American public deserve to know the truth- we are there fighting for the same reason the Khyber Pass has been coveted by the world’s superpowers for centuries: to control the natural land-bridge connecting resource rich Central Asia to resource poor South Asia.
There goes Trump’s rapprochement with Putin down the drain.
Meanwhile Russia and China are establishing mutli-billion dollar trade deals with Iran.
Mindless lackey’s, Iran needs to be engaged and not ostracized.
The money from Israel distorts democracy in Congress and American foreign policy.
Israel doesn’t care about how many American servicemen die protecting the fascist Likud regime and their endeavor to control the entire Mid-East.
Including every Democrat–that goddamned party just doesn’t get that people are tired of this garbage. No wonder they lost.