15 Senators Vow New Iran Sanctions

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15 Senators Vow New Iran Sanctions

Bipartisan group says it'll pass new Iran sanctions legislation as soon as possible, despite agreement reached Saturday.
By Gil Ronen First Publish: 11/24/2013, 10:31 PM




Menendez with Netanyahu
Israel news photo: Flash 90

A group of top senators vowed Sunday to impose more sanctions on Iran, one day after the US and other P5+1 countries agreed to ease sanctions on the country in exchange for Iran's curbing its nuclear-enrichment program.
“A nuclear weapons-capable Iran presents a grave threat to the national security of the United States and its allies and we are committed to preventing Iran from acquiring this capability," the group said. “We will work together to reconcile Democratic and Republican proposals over the coming weeks and to pass bipartisan Iran sanctions legislation as soon as possible.”
The group of 15 senators included Democrats Bob Cardin of Maryland and Bob Menendez of New Jersey, as well as Republicans Bob Corker of Tennessee and John Cornyn of Texas.
Corker, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told “Fox News Sunday” that Iran was celebrating because its deal overnight with the U.S. and five other world powers allows it to continue to enrich uranium while billions of dollars' worth of crippling sanctions are lifted.
“They’re spiking the ball in the end zone,” Corker said.
He also said his greatest concern was that the Obama administration wouldn’t follow through on the terms of the deal – including daily inspections on Iran's nuclear facilities.
He also repeatedly said he didn’t want the interim deal to “become the norm” and suggested Congress is ready to reinstate sanctions and impose more.
“I think you are going to see on Capitol Hill, again, a bipartisan effort to try to make sure that this is not a final agreement,” he said.
Senator Ben Cardin, a Democrat from Maryland, agreed: “We will not stand by (and) just let this be the final deal.” Cardin also appeared on Fox.
Speaking on the ABC program “This Week,” Republican Saxby Chambliss, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said Congress may allow the administration to see how the deal works over the next six months.
But he added that in the future, there could be “a strong movement in the United States Senate to move ahead to tighten sanctions” on Iran.
Menendez, the foreign relations committee chairman, was among the Democrats most critical of the deal.
“The interim agreement reached is but a beginning and a product of that policy,” he said in a separate statement. "In my view, this agreement did not proportionately reduce Iran's nuclear program for the relief it is receiving. Given Iran's history of duplicity, it will demand ongoing, on the ground verification.”


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Obama-Kerry make an interim agreement with Iran via P5+1, and now the Senate/Congress say they will still go ahead an pass sanctions against Iran.

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Senators will hang 'Sword of Damocles' over deal

By Peter Foster
5:30 AM Tuesday Nov 26, 2013


The United States Congress will move to create a "Sword of Damocles" hanging over the heads of the Iranians and the White House to ensure the interim nuclear deal reached in Geneva holds, a senior Senate source promised.
Talks are already under way between leading Republican and Democrat senators who had grown wary of the deal as it was brokered over the past few weeks.
An aide who has direct knowledge of the Senate negotiations said senators would hold a "Sword of Damocles" over the deal, adding: "The only way this six-month 'freeze' period is reassuring is if the deal holds. The President and John Kerry say if Tehran cheats, they will re-impose sanctions, but we have no confidence they will do that. We want it enshrined in law."
Large parts of Congress remain sceptical of Iran's good intentions and the willingness of President Barack Obama and Kerry, the US Secretary of State, to be tough with Tehran in follow-up talks.

The idea behind the new legislation would be to deny Tehran any opportunity to spin out the deal in an attempt to garner sanctions relief without actually moving to decommissioning elements of its suspected nuclear weapons programme.
Among the anticipated key demands by Congress will be that Iran "comes clean" about the weapons programme it continues to officially deny; accepts an intrusive and stringent "additional protocol" inspections regime and dismantles a significant portion of its 19,000 centrifuges.
Obama has had to move quickly to placate sceptical US friends: Israel and the Gulf monarchies. Obama called Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in a bid to reassure him that the accord was temporary and the sanctions relief limited.
Experts believe the agreed controls will stop Iran's nuclear programme in its tracks.
Mark Fitzpatrick, a non-proliferation expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said: "It's better than I thought it would be. I didn't realise that the verification would be this extensive. It caps every aspect of their programme."
Fitzpatrick added: "They're extending the time that Iran would need to break out to build a nuclear weapon: they are at least doubling it, I would say. And if they hadn't done this, the time needed would have halved. Instead of the Iranians halving the breakout time, it will double."
Analyst Anthony Cordesman of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies said: "As first steps go ... the agreement ... offers what is almost certainly the best possible agreement the US and its allies could negotiate, it offers Iran a new path to progress and development, and it offers the region new hope that it can avoid new conflicts and the risk of a massive arms race."
- AFP
- Daily Telegraph UK


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[Khilji]

Obama-Kerry make an interim agreement with Iran via P5+1, and now the Senate/Congress say they will still go ahead an pass sanctions against Iran.

iran is a danger for south asia for their neigbourcountrys this sanctions are not enough

[Al-Afghani]

iran is a danger for south asia for their neigbourcountrys this sanctions are not enough

America has lost its interest in the region, they are withdrawing from the Middle East.

Iran will come out as a new regional power, and balance out Saudi Arabia.

The future is bright for Iran. We might even profit from a possible economic boom.

[Khilji]

America has lost its interest in the region, they are withdrawing from the Middle East.

Iran will come out as a new regional power, and balance out Saudi Arabia.

The future is bright for Iran. We might even profit from a possible economic boom.

irans mullah regime is one of the reason for the civilwar in iraq syria was responsibal for the civilwar in afghanistan with arming criminal shiit hazara bandits of the hezbe wahdat.the futur for your iran is hopefully dark i say that as a afghan.usa lost his interests in the region? thats why they build bases in this region.and who is we i dont belong to you and to your followers

[Al-Afghani]

irans mullah regime is one of the reason for the civilwar in iraq syria was responsibal for the civilwar in afghanistan with arming criminal shiit hazara bandits of the hezbe wahdat.the futur for your iran is hopefully dark i say that as a afghan.usa lost his interests in the region? thats why they build bases in this region.and who is we i dont belong to you and to your followers

If the sanctions go away, all those who profit are:
- Afghan companies who import/export from Iran.
- Immigrants who work in Iran, and send money back.
- Students who go to universities.
- Afghan traders will have an alternative route to the sea, via Chah Bahar.

They can cause trouble for our country of course, but not when we have a strong army.

[Khilji]

If the sanctions go away, all those who profit are:
- Afghan companies who import/export from Iran.
- Immigrants who work in Iran, and send money back.
- Students who go to universities.
- Afghan traders will have an alternative route to the sea, via Chah Bahar.

They can cause trouble for our country of course, but not when we have a strong army.

afghan companies? you try to tell me the drugroute of hazara warlords is a important export companie? wtf wich student would go to iran? the afghans are even not aloud to go there freely in a park in iran why should there study in this fashistic mullah regime`? this sanctions against this fashtic mullah regime in iran are not enough.iran is a enemy of afghanistan of azerbaijan of turkmenistan and many ethnical and religous groups in this region. if this sanctions would be not there than this fashistic mullah regime would play his games in his neighbour countrys and would spread their imperialistic interests in this region more than they doing right now.they distabliced iraq they did it in afghanistan and is doing it in syria and in many more countrys like yemen bahrain.