One year ago, exhausted diplomats from Iran and a group of six world powers emerged from a meeting at a luxury hotel in Vienna, Austria with what they had been seeking for almost two years: a comprehensive agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for lifting harsh economic sanctions.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who proactively pushed for the nuclear deal, promised Tehran will take matters to court.
Rubin told TWS that the reports were “nothing new”, and that Iranians use front companies to obtain material from foreign countries “all the time”.
As the House voted, a bipartisan group of senators announced it had introduced legislation to sanction persons involved in Iran’s ballistic missile program and to require the president to enforce an arms embargo.
Under the agreed conditions, Iran has lived up to its end of the deal.
He said Tehran “had more expectations on the removal of economic, banking and financial restrictions, but despite all these deficiencies there is a feeling of hope inside our country to remove these obstacles” through more talks. “So now for Iran to come back and effectively say to the administration, ‘We’re just not happy with the economic relief that we got”.
Mr. Kerry said Thursday that so far Iran is “living up to it is part of this bargain and obligation”.
“As many anticipated, Iran continues to test the will of the United States and the worldwide community, and it is very evident that we must push back against their regionally destabilizing activities”, said Senator Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who led the opposition in Congress to the administration’s nuclear deal with Iran.
Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to the media as Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens, New York, April 22, 2016.
However, conservatives who opposed the agreement can assert that nothing has held Iran back from other illicit activities, such as the financing of terrorism, curtailing of human rights and jailing of dual-national opponents. The EU and its Member States underline the need for Iran to strictly adhere to all its commitments under the JCPOA and to continue to cooperate fully and in a timely manner with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
“.There are always potential for hiccups, for a moment of questioning about one component or another; but fundamentally, I think the world can take pride in the fact that this multilateral, complicated negotiation has produced a result which makes the region less volatile and makes the world itself safer in terms of nuclear proliferation”.
None of that has discouraged USA critics from trying to torpedo the year-old deal.
The Republican-led House has approved a bill that would undercut the milestone nuclear deal with Iran, a largely symbolic move that highlights strident GOP opposition to the global accord. They started implementing the agreement on January 16.
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The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed two bills linked to the worldwide nuclear accord with Iran imposing a new set of sanctions and blocking Iranian access to US financial system, defying President Obama who has threatened to veto such legislation.
