December 19th, 2013
03:42 PM ET
Senators propose new Iran sanctions bill, White House opposed
CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto
Bipartisan legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate on Thursday that would authorize new economic sanctions on Iran if it breaches an interim agreement to limit its nuclear program or fails to strike a final accord terminating those ambitions.
The proposal led by by Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, and Mark Kirk, an Illinois Republican, emerged despite Obama administration appeals for Congress to defer pursuing new sanctions with diplomatic efforts ongoing.
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Whenever I read these old articles about sanctions it angers me. We gave them a car and the keys to the car and got very little in return .
Bending over backwards to kiss Bibi's ass!
The President has all but hung the party out to dry in 2014, it is going to be a very bad year for the party come election time.
We´re about to have peace with a country we´ve been at odds with since the late 70´s .
Gentlemen lets not F_ck that up !
Thank you, W.G. I totally agree!
Didnt the Iranians walk away from the table again after wasting everyone's time, like they have always done? The learned that from the north Koreans. Play a game, get something then do what you want while threading war.
May there be
peace on earth
and goodwill
toward all people
in this world.
Except evil doers
The Eagle Has No Wings.
I dont think it will matter what we do.
If Iranians , the real ones, like I am a real american and not a suit, if Iranians are seriously willing to stop pursuing national pride threw nuclear weapons , then it will happen. Nothing should happen until we have accepted war with Iran as the alternative. The second we decide this is not working we will need to either strike down their program or accept being nuked. That is what the breakout time means. We simply don't have the time cushion to play more sanctions games. They only need to last 1-4 weeks to break out.
As long as anything you do at this point goes into play AFTER we make that decision I think it is irrelevant. I think pressing it into action now and publicly threatening it risks what ever chance of this working there is. I also think it is about a 5% chance it works. And that is being generous.
The politicians need to understand the game of chicken we are in. Israel, and US are determined not to allow them to get weapons. This works, or the alternative HAS to be done. You have to physically go and destroy the program. Sanctions failed. Now you have 1-4 weeks to do it too.
Putin you should release the girl band you have in jail. It makes you look so bad and there is nothing to gain from holding them. Their name wont get passed the filter but you know who they are and Im sure you read these.
You are right sooner are better rather than to late. Start droping bomb to iran and let as see what ayatolah do next.
Doing everything they can to take us to war and destroy any chance of peace in the middle east.
Any Senator that is behind this bill is basically saying that they are not interested in any sort of diplomatic solution. They only want war with Iran. I guess the war machine needs more cash.
You really nailed it good, JFH. Thank you.
Sanctions are a diplomatic solution.
Thank you, SAWOLF. Spoken like another idiot, bird brained Tea Partier. Have you ever had to go hungry? I bet not!!!
JFH: It doesn't matter what the Senate does, because the president will veto any new sanctions.
But Obama didn't want this. Now even the Dems are turning on him, its about time.
Aytolah Rafsanjani friend of supreme leader in an interview in Kerman, Iran – today: Obama promised us to make amends of the recently sanctions!?
The regime of iran export the finance corruption to the region countries!
After bribes to the Kerazi and Maleki and Assad, it got explored that they also bribes the Turkey authorities!!
Hopefully they didn't offer any to ....!
Good grief Ron, you must be another clueless Tea Partier. Just where will Iran get the money to pay out all these "bribes" that you're talking about? The Politics of Hunger is meant to starve Iran into submission as well as other countries. It was tried on Iraq between 1991 to 2003 when the invasion took place. In fact, it has become a staple part of U.S. foreign policy!!!
Why they replaced Hillary Clinton with John Kerry?
Because Hillary knew the supereme leader dictator regime of iIran is liar and big head of dragon is in Tehran.
But Kerry likes dealing and ......
Load them up with new sanctions, the old ones aren't working. They must kneel down and ask for mercy, and abandon all their nuclear programs.
They have a right to a nuclear program, just not a military one. If you're going to force them to give up civilian nuclear activities because your afraid they'll turn it into a military program, are american civilians going to give up their guns...just in case they use them for criminal activities?
Well said, James. I couldn't agree more. By the way, just ignore Phunnie boy's post above. He never says anything!
Until a gun is put -literally- on Rouhani and the Ayatollah's heads as they did to Al-Assad nothing is going to happen. The same Islamic MO of lies, hypocrisy and deception will persist.
Thank you, Skorpio. Posted like another right-wing, lame brained, Muslim hating Tea Partier!
Lies, hyporicy and deception are the bread and butter of the US, Britain, and Israel.
British (lies): "we are heree to help you arabs in getting rid of the occupation by the turks/ottomans so you can be free" turns to divying up the mideast with French using borders they picked, decades of occupation of the mideast, and the installation of dictators and kings.
US (hypocricy): "we are a beacon of light, we stand for rights and freedoms, others are brutal and evil. saddam tortured people so he's bad." we find out that US soldiers arre torturing prisoners, (they are just a few bad apples!), then a US policy to torture shows up (these are enhanced interrogation techniiques, not torture, promise!)
Israeli (deception): "its true that we have been uprooting entire palestinian farms, demolishing palestinian homes, only providing building permits to jews, blockinging the return of palestinian refugees who fled when we took this land by force, illegally expanding into occupied territory, our citizens yell death to arabs, placing an embargo on things as innocent as crayons, harrassing palestinians at every checkpoint, imprisoning kids for throwing rocks, shooting at palestinian protestors, protecting jews who harass palestinians and vandalize palestinian property BUT no there is no program or aim of getting rid of as many palestinians as possible. we have reasons for each of these things. the fact they seem to point to one thing is just a coincidence.
Just ignore anything that Skorpio says above, AntiSkorpio. He most likely never got past the 5th grade in school. All of these uneducated believe everything that this government says and that's why so many of them joined the Tea party Movement!!!
Terror is the SOP of muslims.
Even the dems are standing against obama.. it doesn't take a genius to see that sanctions need to be re-instated.. only problem is the damage has already been done.. many countries have thrown money towards Iran already
Have you looked at the economic growth numbers this month? Makes you wonder who the sanctions were really hurting the most, the US and global economy or Iran? More oil in the market means economic growth for Europe and the states. thirty years of sanctioning Iran and they have grown their economy and built their infra structure better than all the countries in the ME. It is naive to think that thirty years more will somehow bring them to their knees. I think this is an opportunity to extend the hand of friendship to the new ME superpower and do ourselves some good.
.... Iran and they have grown their economy?!
Are you joking? The supreme leader and his military got all the Iranian money to get richest persons in the country with billions of dollar wealth form occupied people properties to make bomb and rocket.
Most of not regime related Iranian must work 20 Hours per day to pay off their bills.
They spent money to make more prisons for students and lawyers that are tired of middle century dictatorship regime.
They paid millions of dollars to the Hezbolah and other extremist groups.
Only more sanctions can bring them to their knee and shut down the nuclear facilities.
Good posting, mf3. Thank you.
Now it appears that we have a lot of Senators on Capitol Hill who are both bought and paid for. Then again, anyone with half a brain already has this figured out! These people don't want any kind of settlement, only another war in order to fatten up their bank accounts!!!
sanctions are not war.. they will prevent war
Right, sanctions on Iraq prevented the Iraq war. Sanctions do not solve tensions between two nations.
With bunch of Firsters.....are you really that surprised? Both the house and the senete is infested and infected by jewish lobby who are willing to send US farm boys to war for their stolen land.
If you removed your head from your backside long enough to actually take a look around, you would know that iranian HEMP testing is about attacking the USA, not Israel, bloody traitor.
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-Abdul Qadeer Khan: Father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb
– Barack Hussein Obama: Father of Iran's nuclear bomb
(From the future Wikipedia article: "History of the Islamic Nuclear Bomb"....)
You forgot Bill Clinton was the father of the North Korean Nuclear bomb.
Zarif in his speech in Tehran university on Dec 18, 2013: I follow up the supreme leader orders and his nuclear plans.
We keep our nuclear facilities safe and it takes just one day to return to our 20% Uranium enrichment plan!!