New reporting that members of the United Nations Security Council are moving to foster the development of a pending nuclear agreement between leading world powers and Iran over the nation’s nuclear program has sent U.S. lawmakers opposed to a peaceful settlement with the Middle Eastern nation into orbit.
On Thursday, the Reuters news agency said members of the Security Council were working on a “resolution to lift U.N. sanctions on Iran if a nuclear agreement is struck with Tehran” and quoted a western official who said that such “a step that could make it harder for the U.S. Congress to undo a deal.”
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Word of that news, according to the Daily Beast, made GOP lawmakers go “ballistic” in response. The news outlet reported:
Currently in Congress is a bill submitted by Corker and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, which says that any agreement made between the State Department and the Iranian government over the lifting of sanctions and regarding its nuclear program would have to be submitted to Congress for review. Obama has vowed to veto such a bill if it ever reached his desk, arguing it would certainly derail the progress so far made in the talks.
Though partisan rancor was set off this week by the letter signed by 47 GOP members in the Senate, there remains, according to foreign policy analyst Robert Naiman, a troubling amount of bipartisan agreement when it comes to finding some way to foil the tenuous talks between Iran and the P5+1 nations. Though a large majority of Republicans have made it plain they will go to great lengths to sabotage any deal with Iran, Naiman argues it is the Democrats in the Senate who now hold many of the cards. In an op-ed published by Common Dreams on Friday, he writes:
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