Obama Sees an Iran Deal That Could Avoid Congress

NY Times ^

[sphinx]

the Iranians have signaled that they would accept, at least temporarily, a “suspension” of the stringent sanctions that have drastically cut their oil revenues and terminated their banking relationships with the West, according to American and Iranian officials

So many cynics on this thread ... but lookee here: Iran has agreed to accept the suspension of sanctions. What a breathtaking concession. Probably only Obama could have talked them into that. Must've really gone to the mat. He deserves another Nobel Peace Prize.

[sphinx]

A leading Republican critic of the negotiations, Senator Mark S. Kirk of Illinois, added, “Congress will not permit the president to unilaterally unravel Iran sanctions that passed the Senate in a 99 to 0 vote,” a reference to the vote in 2010 that imposed what have become the toughest set of sanctions.

But cynicism aside, this is the key. Does anyone know the complete legislative status? A 99-0 vote in the Senate doesn't mean anything unless the House also voted on sanctions, and the President signed a bill. Then there would be a legislative mandate which the president can't simply waive, absent waiver authority in the law. (Not that a law would stop Obama.) But if it was just a sense of the Senate resolution, and the sanctions were imposed by executive discretion under prior existing law, they could presumably also be removed by executive action.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I’m aware of some of the things you mentioned, and of course, know that Valerie Jarrett was raised in Iran. Valerie’s beliefs are not clear—she’s an out and out Commie, clearly—but her Muslim leanings are less clear.

The new and devious thing you’ve added is that the Khalid al Mansour link to Obama might have been a plant by a Shiite sympathizer. That’s deviousness of a high order, because it was done far in advance. The story appeared to emphasize questions of the degree of Obama’s Islamic sympathies and the involvement with his career.

Essentially what you are saying is that those questions would have come anyway, and the planted story was meant to misdirect perceptions of WHICH part of Islam Obama was most sympathetic to, at the short-term cost of highlighting the fact that there was an Islamic connection. That’s a one-level deeper deception.

[GOPJ]

One of Obama, Hillary and John Kerry’s campaign donors was a pro-regime, anti sanctions Iranian-American Hassan Nemazee who bilked Citibank in a $4292 million fraud case. There’s some big oil interests too who are likely willing to offer payola.

Thanks for sharing...

[piasa]

That’s why he’s no making an example of Menendez

[piasa]

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