[Iran Press TV] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
says the White House does not need congressional approval to suspend sanctions against Iran.
The B.O. regime is reportedly planning to suspend sanctions against the Islamic Theocratic
Republicwithout an immediate vote in Congress, but it says politicians will have the final word on whether to permanently terminate the sanctions.
"On sanctions, what we've merely said to people is that -- and we've said this in public testimony as well as in private conversations -- that in the first instance, we would look to suspend sanctions, which the president can do, simply because that's the necessary way to proceed with respect to the negotiations themselves," Kerry said Wednesday at a presser in Berlin.
The plan, first revealed by The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
on Sunday, does not suggest that the US Congress will be sidestepped on any nuclear deal with Iran, Kerry said.
"I have too much respect for the process of the Congress, the rights of the Congress, and the importance of the relationship between the Executive and the Congress, the Legislative Branch, to ever suggest that there would be any credibility to this notion there's some thought of going around it," he stated.
The top US diplomat said that administration officials were engaged in "a regular series of briefings" with politicians on the issue, emphasizing that "Congress has an extremely important role to play in this."