The Democratic senators willing to risk a war with Iran

The Huffington Post reports: As the United States finally puts a decade of war behind it, a group of senators, including 15 Democrats, is defying the White House and threatening to push the country into a fresh war with Iran.

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is leading the charge to pass legislation in January that would impose tougher sanctions on Iran, despite dire warnings from the White House, Iranian leaders, 10 Democratic committee chairs and a host of liberal groups that such an effort could sink a delicate nuclear agreement already in place. Under that Nov. 24 deal, Tehran would curb its nuclear program in exchange for some relief from economic sanctions for a period of six months.

The Senate bill, which has 19 Republican cosponsors, takes a hard line, levying new sanctions on Iran unless the country’s leaders agree to abandon all uranium enrichment — what some have called an “absurd” stance. In the past, both John Kerry, then a U.S. senator, and Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, have said that Iran has the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said earlier this month that if the Senate moved forward with its bill, the current nuclear deal would be dead. A senior Obama administration official went further, telling The Huffington Post that Senate action makes it “far more likely that we’ll be left only with a military option” regarding Iran. [Continue reading…]

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2 thoughts on “The Democratic senators willing to risk a war with Iran

  1. BillVZ

    ” The Senate bill, which has 19 Republican cosponsors, takes a hard line, levying new sanctions on Iran seems to imply That unless the country’s leaders agree to abandon all uranium enrichment they are effectively choosing to close the door on diplomacy, making it far more likely that we’ll be left only with a military option.” Hmmmm..

    As Pepe Escobar implies in an OpEd article it is the voice of Israel and the House of Saud and their funding for these great American legislators that makes them so patriotically outspoken.
    Meanwhile-“No one is talking, but it’s easy to picture BRICS heavyweights Russia and China casually informing Washington what kind of weaponry and material support they would offer Iran in case of an American attack.”

    The Huff article with the gorgeous photos of the dissenting Senators is for the Washington in crowd. Although they just might help at election time to remind that they might bet the ones to dump.

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