Weeks of stalled nuclear talks felt like they were building up somewhere, and this past week has seen the Iran talks fall apart, with the US backing away from the process, without calling the talks dead. On Wednesday, the US Senate sought to double down on this.
In a 62-33 non-binding motion, the Senate voted to preclude any revived nuclear deal with Iran in which the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is removed from the terrorism blacklist.
Superficially, the Biden Administration had already ruled out removing the IRGC from the list last week. This week saw the administration preparing to preclude a nuclear deal, so what does the Senate’s move mean?
Broadly, it is a statement of intentions. This vote can be seen as a trial vote for any Senate vote to authorize a new deal, giving every reason to believe that any attempt to Biden to reverse course and try to get the deal through would face a likely insurmountable Senate opposition.
It’s a non-binding motion, so the Senate isn’t stopping Biden from making a deal. They are telling him, and Iran, that the deal isn’t going to survive senatorial oversight. Leaving the negotiations unsettled and the deal un-reached is seemingly the only option available to them.
The Wednesday vote is a potential bellwether for future efforts, showing who stands on which side. The vote showed broad Republican opposition to the nuclear deal, with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) the lone Republican on the nay side, along with three abstentions. The Democrats were more split on the issue, but with highly-ranking Democrats like Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) opposing the deal.
This will likely discourage the Biden administration, and they already seemed inclined to stop the Iran talks. It will only inform Iran that fears the US won’t honor any deal reached in Vienna were well-founded.
The terror as usual comes from the USA. Iran and the Shias are NOT the terror mongers-it is the Sunnis supported by the USA and Saudi Arabia. Iran has already been treated shamefully for years. Stop the USA, agreement-incapable, from doing more harm.
The Senate can signal all day long that it wouldn’t approve an Iran nuclear deal.
The fact is the Senate doesn’t HAVE to approve an Iran nuclear deal, because there’s already an Iran nuclear deal that the Senate has ratified and that the “rules-based international order” requires the US to abide by.
The Senate ratified the UN charter in 1945, making it, as a treaty, “the Supreme Law of the Land.”
The UN charter binds all UN member states to abide by Security Council resolutions.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is a Security Council resolution.
QED, the JCPOA is US law until and unless the US decides to stop being a UN member state.
Approval, no , diktat should come from AIPAC. ADL etc. or Israel direct. UN, Senate, White House etc are all irrelevant
These “dictacts” do not exist in the real world.
May be in the world of drug addicts like Zelensky
Thomas, Thomas, Thomas. Since when does Amerikkka abide by “rules-based international order”?
Oh BTW how’s the garden coming along?🙂
Garden’s going beautifully. The squash are fruiting, the tomatoes, peas, cucumbers, and green beans are in flower, and the corn is about three feet high.
Ohhhh boy— to live in a warm place! We’re just now getting our seeds started (our last frost date is at the end of the month) and we’ll direct-sow the rest third week of May.
Good job Thomas!
When I worked at a local nursery we opened first of May. People would get spring fever and come in and buy their veggie plants right away. I used to tell them, Okay, I’ll sell them to you, but PROMISE you won’t plant them til Memorial Day. They would dutifully promise, then sheepishly return a few weeks later, admitting that they planted early and their plants froze and they needed more.
Well, it was good for business anyways.
The terror as usual comes from the USA. Iran and the Shias are NOT the terror mongers-it is the Sunnis supported by the USA and Saudi Arabia. Iran has already been treated shamefully for years. Stop the USA, agreement-incapable, from doing more harm.
Murderer of General Soleimani stamping others terrorists.USA and its master Israel are the biggest terrorist outfits in the world
Bennett lost the majority in Knesset but gain the majority in US Senate…!
Shocking. Schumer(D-Israel) showing his true colors and they aren’t red, white and blue. Menedez(D-Israel) didn’t vote. Must have been servicing Bennet.
Meanwhile the Nazis in Ukraine have their complete backing.
Wars, LOVE (D-Israel) !!!!
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