If you’re an AIPAC lobbyist, you can tell how good of a job you’re doing by how many new rounds of sanctions you get imposed on Iran during any given year. The past twelve months have been lean times, with an interim nuclear deal and negotiations stalling any new sanctions bills.
AIPAC is now riled up at the prospect of another seven month extension of the nuclear talks, and is demanding that Congress immediately impose some new sanctions on Iran to show Iran they really mean business.
Lots of Congressmen will go along with AIPAC as a matter of course, but some didn’t need any convincing. This is particularly true of the incoming Senate leadership, including John McCain (R – AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R – SC), who were already demanding sanctions and veto power over any future deal.
The interim nuclear deal in place requires Iran to keep its enrichment to a low level, in return for some sanctions relief. Imposing new sanctions now would violate that pact, and would throw the talks into doubt. That, of course, is not lost on those officials, so while they insist they want the sanctions for “leverage,” sabotaging the talks is very much the point.
Israel wants for Palestineians whom disagree with Israel apartheid regime social system to leave,
AIPAC are the people which USG needs to throw them out of country and confiscate their American passports, although they are U.S citizen but they are working for Israel interests not the American people.
Is there a better example of the divergence of interests between Israel and the U.S.? It is in U.S. interests to keep Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and establish better relations. Iran would be a much better strategic ally than Israel ever would. Instead, Israel is using its treasonist zionist network in the U.S. to damage any chances of reaching a peaceful deal with Iran. The FBI should start arresting AIPAC executives for not registering as foreign agents and start purging all dual citizens from Federal employment.
"…FBI should start arresting AIPAC executives for not registering as foreign agents…"
Congress would have to change the law and remove the exemptions put in place to protect the Israelis' spies and the likelihood of that happening is near zero.
Iran is the only vaguely credible "existential threat" to Israel remaining in the Middle East. Every other nation that didn't already have ties to Israel has been "destabilized" in accordance with the Oded Yinon plan. Israel needs Iran as an enemy to justify continued US "aid" in the form of the latest and greatest US weaponry. The US provided Israel with the means (bunker buster bombs and refuelling aircraft) to attack Iran's nuclear facilities in 2010, but Netanyahu wants US troops, not Israelis, to die for the cause of "Greater Israel." With a new neocon Sec. of Defense, McCain as Chairman of Armed Services, and a pro-war, pro-Israel Republican majority in Congress, it's very likely that US troops will soon be giving Netanyahu what he wants: their lives.
The lobby is evil.