However, the agreement permits Iran to completely withdraw from the deal if any such sanctions are re-imposed – meaning enforcement leads to termination.
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It should be remembered that Senator Cotton was one of the 46 Senators who sent an open letter to the Iranian leadership in March along warning that the next president could revoke a deal not ratified by Congress.
Since the declaration of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, Tehran and Washington have had tense relations.
“The U.S. intelligence community has informed Congress of evidence that Iran was sanitizing its suspected nuclear military site at Parchin, in broad daylight, days after agreeing to a nuclear deal with world powers“.
“Today my counterparts and I have discussed the steps that we will take and how we intend to build an even stronger, more enduring and more strategic partnership with particular focus on our cooperative counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and also on our cooperation in countering the destabilizing activities taking place in the region”, he said.
Charles Schumer will be among them – see that Iran’s government has pursued this “historic” deal, not because it desires peace and nuclear stability, but because the regime wants out from under the tough sanctions that have held its dreams of regional supremacy and global influence in check for years.
Only after UN inspectors certify compliance will Iran gradually get much-needed relief from crushing worldwide economic sanctions, which have devastated life for ordinary Iranians. Nonetheless, those sanctions were having a powerful impact on the Iranian economy.
Here is the issue: For the past 20 months, the U.S. and five other countries (Germany, France, United Kingdom, Russian Federation and China) have been negotiating with Iran to prevent that country from acquiring or building a nuclear weapon. Representing terror victims from Israel, the United States, Canada, Iran, and elsewhere, she files motions and seizes assets and sends warnings. If you oppose the deal, he basically argues, you’re linking arms with Iranian radicals as partners for war. Critics of the agreement are trying to line up the votes they would need for an override.
“‘The intel briefing was troubling to me … some of the things that are happening, especially happening in such a blatant way, ‘ he said”. Iran still chants “death to America” and threatens to “wipe Israel off the map”.
And in the medium term, it would legitimize and pave the way for the world’s most risky regime to have the world’s most unsafe weapon.
But she said the deal’s strength’s outweigh its weaknesses. Israel’s government, backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, vehemently opposes the deal. And that compliance means that Iran will not be able to acquire a nuclear weapon.
Separately, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, said investors in Iran should realize that they would likely lose their money should he be elected president.
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The writer, a Palisades resident, is a former Army captain and 2014 Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives’ 17th District seat.
