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| U.S.: U.N. Security Council Would Vote on Any Deal with Iran |
| 2015-03-17 |
| [AnNahar] The White House has confirmed that any nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers would be subject to a vote by the U.N. Security Council. Which essentially takes the Champ regime off the hook for any follow-on military action regarding Iran should the inevitable happen, and Iran violates the terms of the deal. Russian 'buy-in' for any strike against Iran is most improbable. The acknowledgement by President Barack Obama ...I am not a dictator! 's chief of staff Denis McDonough comes as the White House butts heads with Republicans over whether the U.S. Congress should vote on any deal. "Just as it is true that only Congress can terminate U.S. statutory sanctions on Iran, only the Security Council can terminate the Security Council's sanctions on Iran," McDonough said in a letter on Saturday to Bob Corker, the Republican head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "Because the principal negotiators of an arrangement with Iran are the five permanent members of the Security Council, we anticipate that the Security Council would pass a resolution to register its support for any deal and increase its international legitimacy," he said. On Friday, the State Department's spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki also said there would be an "endorsement vote" by the U.N. Security Council soon after an agreement is reached with Iran. This would be separate from a resolution on lifting sanctions imposed by the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... on Tehran, she said. That vote would occur later in a manner and date yet to be established, according to Psaki. The B.O. regime has been trying to dissuade politicians from passing a law, called Corker-Menendez, that would force the president to submit any agreement with Iran to Congress for approval. Under the measure, Congress would have 60 days to review and possibly vote to block any agreement's entry into force. "On this issue where Congress has played such a vital role, I believe it is very important that Congress appropriately weigh in before any final agreement is implemented," Corker said. The Republicans are trying to assemble a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress to pass the measure and override an Obama veto. "Apparently the administration is on the cusp of entering into a very bad deal with one of the worst regimes in the world that would allow them to continue to have their nuclear infrastructure. We're alarmed about it," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." "We will either be voting on a bill that would require the deal to come to Congress. The president said he would veto that. Or if there is no deal, we'll be voting on a bill that says the sanctions need to be ratcheted up," he said. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 They can call it Oil For Palaces Redux. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-03-17 22:31 |
| #4 If the sanctions are lifted by the UN, then the Senate's refusal to ratify the treaty will be moot. Not only that, but even if the next president puts sanctions and inspections back in place in accordance with the will of Congress, the rest of th world will be so busily selling Iran the materials and tools to make their nuclear bombs, and buying their oil, that an American refusal to engage on trade will be swamped by European and Asian delight in doing so. They're all already negotiating contracts in anticipation of coming changes. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-03-17 20:08 |
| #3 The UN can lift sanctions anytime they get tired of five-star dining. It's got nothing to do with a deal between two nations. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-03-17 13:50 |
| #2 It still does not bind the US you want to make it a treaty? Do it right, cowards |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-03-17 10:18 |
| #1 Sniff, sniff, reminds me of FRACKING in coming future decades. Another test for OWG Co-Superpower Iran. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-03-17 00:07 |