Republican senators are calling on the Biden administration to impose a new arms embargo on Iran, something that would move the US even further away from rejoining the Iran nuclear deal.
Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN) sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken making the demand. “We urge you to renew the effort for the United States to work with our allies and partners on an effective and enforceable arms embargo regime against Iran as soon as possible,” the senators wrote.
A UN arms embargo on Iran was lifted last October despite the Trump administration’s efforts to continue the embargo. “As you know in 2016, the United Nations Security Council extended a ban on the transfer of arms but in a concession to Iran, allowed this ban to expire on October 18, 2020,” the letter reads.
Senator Ernst is strongly opposed to the Biden administration rejoining the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA. She introduced a resolution in February with other Republican Iran hawks condemning a revival of the JCPOA. “Even to discuss rejoining the original Iran Nuclear Deal right now is unwise. To appease this terrorist state could be catastrophic,” Ernst said when the resolution was introduced.
It’s not only Republican senators who oppose a return to the JCPOA. Senator Bob Menendez, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been outspoken in his opposition to the Biden administration lifting sanctions on Iran to return to the original agreement.
“Even to discuss rejoining the original Iran Nuclear Deal right now is unwise. To appease this terrorist state could be catastrophic”
Iranian hardliners will be saying the same thing, word for word.
And when they say “terrorist state” it will be much more accurate.
Take a hike you Exceptionalist megalomaniacs
It’s not we were selling them arms anyway.. All the US is doing is creating a monopoly for the Russian manufacturers.
These senators should give it up. The US’s demand to extend the arms embargo against Iran was rejected by the members of the United Nations Security Council, including China, Russia, UK and France. . . .here
Joanie Ernst = Tom Cotton without a penis.
The Senate RetardiQAns should worry about their 2022 re-elections…!
a.i.pa.c. is the cancer in the u.s. government.
If anything an arms embargo against selling NATO gear to Iran is a favor to Iran.
First: Iran can produce almost everything it needs and with far higher quality and lower cost than NATO gear.
Second: Iran will simply source anything else it needs and cannot produce internally from Russia and China.
Third: I bet alot of countries in Europe currently being forced to spend outrageous sums on obsolete NATO junk wish they could somehow earn an arms embargo of their very own.
Joanie Ernst = Tom Cotton without a penis.