On Friday, a group of Republican senators introduced a bill that would require President Biden to get the approval of the Senate to return to the Iran nuclear deal or join any future agreements with the Islamic Republic. The move comes as the US and Iran are engaged in indirect negotiations to revive the JCPOA. The talks are set to enter their sixth round on Saturday.
The bill was led by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and was co-sponsored by 22 Republican senators. It would label deals with Iran as treaties, which would require the Senate to approve any agreements with a two-thirds majority.
While the Biden administration is engaged in negotiations with Iran, it is still taking a very hardline approach. Biden refuses to lift all Trump-era sanctions on Iran, and his advisors are signaling a deal might not happen. Regardless of the tough approach, Republican hawks are still slamming Biden for even entertaining the idea of a JCPOA revival.
“It’s clear the Biden administration is in the business of appeasing adversaries like Russia, state sponsors of terrorism like Iran, and Iran’s terrorist proxies like Hamas. Instead of addressing the threats these actors pose, the administration will coddle the Iranian regime and ignore its malign activity throughout the region. Any potential agreement with Iran involves risks that affect our entire nation,” Sen. Johnson said in a statement on the bill.
Johnson’s legislation has a good chance of passing through the Senate and the House, but it would likely fail to get the two-thirds majority needed if Biden vetoes the bill. But it is another sign of the domestic pressure Biden is under not to revive the JCPOA, and it seems less and less likely that the president is willing to take a stand against the hawks on the Iran issue.
Israeli stooges clamoring for that AIPAC $$$
Dang! Beat me to it!
Nation building is usually the idiot realm inhabited by democrats.
Isn’t nation buildin giving billions to refugees who are taking over some one else’s nation with ever expanding colonial outposts and genocide of the native population? Or does that type of action have another moniker?
“It’s clear the Biden administration is in the business of appeasing adversaries like Russia, state sponsors of terrorism like Iran, and Iran’s terrorist proxies like Hamas. Instead of addressing the threats these actors pose, the administration will coddle the Iranian regime and ignore its malign activity throughout the region. Any potential agreement with Iran involves risks that affect our entire nation,” Sen. Johnson said in a statement on the bill.
We’re appeasing Russia by playing massive war games on their borders and risking war by our support for Ukraine. We’re appeasing Iran, a country that can’t be talked about without the prefix “state sponsor of terror”, by maintaining our sanctions and belligerence that was in place when Trump left. And somehow we’re appeasing Hamas also. I guess our intent to pledge $735 million for missile upgrades and $1 billion in emergency aid to the terrorist group that out killed the other terrorist group escaped Johnson. And then throw in the neocon “trump” card if you will, and grossly exaggerate Iran’s activity and threat to the region as if it’s any more dangerous, or different, than the other regional players. The sad thing is that this guy speaks for the vast majority from both sides of the aisle.
So Johnson and his numbnut cohorts want Iran out of the NPT on steroids better known as the JCPOA. Brilliant. Now you’ll have neither. Of course Johnson isn’t exactly known for his mental acuity and some of the cosigners are equally idiotic.