[Perdogg]

This deal is Beckal's October surprise.

[JimSEA]

Well, I suppose that Iran will no longer be a threshold state but will bow another nuclear power. Way to go O.

[piasa]

Companies doing business with Iran that want sanctions lifted, also nifty trick to make it appear the Obama admin is imposing more sanctions rather than easing them:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3201864/posts

[Hostage]

> “...an accord with Iran that would forestall its ability to make a nuclear weapon.”

Forestall?

So says the NY Times.

[SoFloFreeper]

an accord with Iran that would forestall its ability to make a nuclear weapon.

[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.

[piasa]

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

[piasa]

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