House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) administers the oath of office to House members and delegates of the U.S. House of Representatives at the start of the 116th Congress inside the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 3, 2019 (photo credit: KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS)
Axios: Scoop: House GOP moves to tank Biden's Iran diplomacy
Nearly 200 House Republicans have written to President Biden warning any nuclear deal made with Iran without Congress' approval "will meet the same fate" as the 2015 agreement by President Obama later abandoned by President Trump.
Why it matters: The Biden administration has been working feverishly to secure an agreement via indirect nuclear talks in Vienna, but on Wednesday, an Iranian official publicly called for Congress to pledge that the U.S. will stay in a potential deal.
* The GOP letter — signed by most members of the party that polls say will run the House next year — bluntly rebuffs Iran's request.
* It also complicates Biden's already-fraught efforts to revive the deal negotiated by the Obama administration and backed by the European Union and U.N. Security Council.
* The administration sees a return to an agreement as a way of avoiding a nuclear arms race in the already volatile Middle East.
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Update: Over 160 House Republicans Vow To Fight & Block Potential Iran Deal (Zero Hedge)
WNU Editor: The US House Republicans are not alone. They have support in the US Senate .... U.S. Republican senators vow to thwart any Iran deal if Biden skips congressional review (Reuters).
Update #2: Some reports are now saying there is a draft nuclear agreement in the Vienna talks .... Report: Under draft nuke deal, Iran to first cut enrichment to 5%; get $7b in assets (Times of Israel). More here .... Iran nuclear deal draft puts prisoners, enrichment, cash first, oil comes later -diplomats (Reuters).
5 comments:
" avoiding a nuclear arms race "
There is already a nuclear arms race and has been since before Trump was president. So the Obama alums/Biden maladministration is avoiding shit except for accountability.
Some of those alums have to know the truth, so why are they persisting?
Saudi Arabia already has 1 nuke. Billionaire Obama long ago made sure they would have more.
Said this before so say it again
Got treaty? then violation justifies bombing
No treaty: to bomb is an aggressive act making bombing nation in the wrong
ps: Ukraine gave up nukes a few years ago..and now?
Bombing Iran is not an aggressive act. Iran has done plenty to deserve a bombing.
Iran has a long history of hosting both key al Qaeda members as well as Taliban leaders. As Foreign Policy reported in May 2016, “Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was killed in Pakistan by an American drone last weekend after leaving Iran, where his family lives. U.S. officials say that Mullah Mansour regularly and freely traveled into and out of Iran.”
"Multiple reports in recent years have accused Iran and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of providing weaponry and training for the Taliban. In February 2017, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan told Congress that Iran was supporting the Taliban to undermine the U.S. mission in the country, noting that “Russia, Iran, and al Qaeda are playing significant roles in Afghanistan.”"
Iran bad. N. Korea bad. Yemen bad. China bad. let's bomb them all
You're bad. Let's bomb you.
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