Over 100 House Republicans are urging the Biden administration to immediately end indirect negotiations with Iran that are ongoing in Vienna to revive the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA.
In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the lawmakers urged the administration to “immediately withdraw from the fruitless Vienna talks” and to “strongly enforce” existing sanctions on Iran.
Until this month, Biden officials have had extremely negative things to say about the Vienna talks that restarted at the end of November. The Republican lawmakers cited the negative comments as a reason to end the negotiations.
“Administration officials’ recent statements about the Vienna talks have made it clear that there is no productive diplomatic path forward at this time,” the letter reads.
The letter highlights the political pressure Biden will come under if he decides to give Iran the adequate sanctions relief necessary to revive the JCPOA. With the pressure in mind, the White House is reportedly focusing on blaming the Trump administration for the current situation, even though Biden has had a year to reverse Trump’s policy.
I urge these House Republicans to move to Israel, the country of their true allegiance.
James,
What a guy! Great idea. I’ll even start a ‘go-fund me page’ for them…
“Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry?!”
Israel beckons…
That’s actually a GREAT idea. List ’em by name, with this letter as a reference. We can just send them links to the site. I’ll be proud to contribute, just to make a point.
And this is why Biden is planning to blame Trump as the previous article says: this is purely about the mid-terms.
That’s how politics work in the US… The republicans would do the same I am sure…!
Republican party has nothing to offer,no ideals,no creative policies,most of the senators are there just for decoration purpose.
Then,why Republican party can not be dissolved? Because there is no alternative,and the threat of civil war hanging in the air or White Elephant in the room.
This can not be solved and it will not end well unfortunately,
The democratic party is no better—They too are war mongers and Israel-firsters.
Unfortunately there are some of those in the party.
He should tell the Republicans to pound sand.
For once, Trump serves as a useful foil. If he hadn’t left the agreement, the Iranians wouldn’t have started their “enrichment diplomacy” in earnest. So, we had to, ya know.
He should tell the house republicans to not forget their vacation on the Israeli beaches…!
Along with the prostitutes and drugs.
AIPAC Calling in the markers?
“As a first, immediate step, the Administration must enforce penalties against the PRC’s flagrant violations of U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil trade. Iran’s oil shipments are now worth at least $1.3 billion per month, despite the fact that U.S. sanctions are still in effect.”
https://gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/mccaul-and-house-republicans-urge-biden-to-withdraw-from-vienna-talks/
Two birds with one stone. Assclowns.
None of the US’s business who China does business with. How do those sentences come from sentient brains? And who is this going to be enforced against? All the multinationals with all their cheap plastic manufacturing facilities in China?
One of the nice things about the (relatively) free-trade environment post-1992 is that it has probably put an end to US sanctions as anything resembling effective policy.
Lots of people who claim to be anti-war (and anti-sanction) also complain about “all their cheap plastic manufacturing facilities in China” seem not to realize this.
When the US pretty much sat atop the world hierarchy after World War 2, there was an extent to which sanctions had teeth because the rest of the world hadn’t built or rebuilt their own industrial bases and caught up. Sanctions could put them in a real hurt locker.
Now sanctions weaken the US rather than everyone else. With any kind of hardcore sanctions, the US doesn’t get the stuff it wants, and everyone else gets the stuff THEY want from somewhere other than the US.
Which, at some point, means the US has to choose between prosperity and peace, or poverty. Of course, in the short term it may continue choosing the latter, and war as a remedy. Which would be sad, but hopefully a severe loss would provide the needed attitude adjustment.