Posted on 07/15/2015 4:29:21 PM PDT by Dave346
Diplomats say vote to back new deal could come Monday or Tuesday, would pass easily with support of permanent members
The United States Wednesday put forward a draft resolution to the UN Security Council seeking backing for a historic deal curtailing Iran’s nuclear program as a first step for international approval of the accord.
The draft text seeks formal UN endorsement for the hard-won, ground-breaking agreement reached in Vienna on Tuesday after 18 straight days of talks which capped almost two years of momentous negotiations.
The new resolution would also replace the existing framework of seven sets of Security Council sanctions imposed since 2006 on Iran, enshrining a new set of restrictions.
“We have now formally introduced this Iran resolution into the Security Council,” a US diplomat said.
Under the deal, hammered out by six world powers and Iran, a web of sanctions will be gradually lifted as Tehran takes steps to dismantle and mothball much of its nuclear program to ensure it cannot build a bomb.
A vote on the resolution could come as early as Monday or Tuesday, a diplomat said.
But a UN embargo on conventional arms sales and exports is to stay in place for five years, while trade in ballistic missiles capable of being armed with a nuclear warhead will remain for eight years.
The draft resolution should pass with little difficulty since the five veto-wielding permanent members of the UN Security Council — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — were among those countries which negotiated the Vienna accord.
“It was negotiated. All of them know and supported every element of it. There is no uncertainty,” a US official familiar with the dossier said.
The draft text was put forward by the US ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power during closed door talks on Wednesday.
In order to lift the sanctions, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, will have to report that Iran is meeting its commitments under the deal, and that it has fully answered concerns that prior to 2003, and perhaps later, it may have sought nuclear arms.
However, the deal also sets out a so-called “snapback” mechanism to put the old sanctions back in place. It establishes a joint commission which would examine any complaints if world powers feel Iran has not met its commitments under the Vienna deal.
If a protest is made via the joint commission, then the UN Security Council would have to vote on whether to continue the sanctions lifting.
“It seems counterintuitive, but if we veto that resolution, sanctions will snapback and all the past resolutions would come back into force,” the diplomat said.
Once the UN Security Council resolution is agreed, that will start the clock ticking on the first deadline known as Adoption Day, some 90 days after the UN endorses the agreement.
Under the deal, all parties from that day must begin to make the necessary legal and administrative preparations to implement the full deal later on.
To be fair, who in their right mind could have imagined how duplicitous the GOP would have been? It is unprecedented, is it not?
Back when the lesser evil Freepers told us that...
We had to keep our powder dry...
That any republican was better than any Democrat...
Principle and purity were the problem not the solution...
That we had to fight a ‘holding action’ with anyone running as an R...
...and a thousand other things that common sense, political/military strategy, standard logic and basic morality would tell you was farcical at best...
We were told that we loved Obama and hated America, had idiotic memes posted as if this were some sort of a 4Chan solution and countless other things. To this very day those people make excuses to cover their own asses for their contributions and STILL try the Bhagdad Bob routine.
When people die by Iranian bombs, they are every bit as responsible. Just as they are every bit responsible for the baby parts, the homo marriage and the rest of the issues their blessed Republican lesser evils either enabled through silence or openly sided with Barry on.
And they should be treated accordingly by anyone that actually believes in actual, not bastardized conservatism. Some people had the integrity to admit their mistakes. Others double down Obama style to try and brazen it out. It is what it is.
Quite a few of us predicted it damn near to the letter actually. Sometimes to the letter. Not because we are prophets. Because we paid attention. When someone campaigns on working with a Democrat, believe them.
Hussein will be the first POTUS to have ALL of his dictates rendered moot.
keep in mind the Obama could have,
all by himself,
waived the US’s part of the sanctions
By who exactly? The people that couldn’t even vote for conservatives unless they were guaranteed victory sure as hell aren’t gonna rise up and their blessed lesser evils arent gonna. I guess that leaves Democrats to hang our hopes on. They are more trustable than the GOP anyway.
Treason
The senators cannot “grant” sole treaty making powers to the president. They cannot unilaterally change the constitution. If they wish to give their consent for a treaty, they must have a vote and two thirds of the senators present must concur.
Article II, Section 2...
He [the president] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;
And there we go...fait accompli.
“Britain, China, France, Russia”
We are making deals like this with socialists?
Any one of the countries would take this country out
if it thought it had the tactical advantage. Yes
even Britain.
Yes Corker/McConnel/Cornyn-— all traitors to the constitution of our country. Remove them from office!!
He has done more to destroy America than any individual in history.
Yes, the filthy scumbag is worse then Hitler. I wonder if all the delusional demorats who voted for Obama are happy now - realizing that Israel might very well have to use it's nuclear weapons. And then what's going to happen?
Oh, but Jim, who is going to put a stop to this “treaty”? Unfortunately I think we all know that the answer has become that the piece of paper you quoted has become obsolete.
I think Congress has 90 days to adopt after the resolution passed the UN. And I’d assume one of the other countries on the Security Council could have introduced the legislation, however, the US could have threatened veto, unless the bill was presented to Congress first. That alone should have been enough to table the resolution.
With that said, Congress shouldn’t be taking orders from the UN on the timing of ratification. It’d be ironic if it gets killed because Congress fails to act.
Who needs the Constitution?
Established by the state doesn’t mean established by the state in 2015, so why should a treaty be considered a treaty? They would never get 2/3rds of the Senate to agree to this garbage.
The problem is that Obama was going to move forward and make an executive agreement with Iran that would have had zero congressional oversight. The Corker bill was an attempt to put some kind of oversight in place.
But it’s a case where “doing something” was worse than doing nothing. The Senate should have followed Tom Cotton’s lead and let Obama freelance the deal while making it clear that the he didn’t have the Senate’s backing. That would have undercut the legitimacy of whatever agreement Obama put in place and would have created grounds for the next president to undo it.
But thanks to the Corker bill, Obama’s agreement now has the imprimatur of the Senate which gives it de facto treaty status. The “international community” understandably sees this as an unambiguous green light to normalize relations with Iran and enter into long term trade agreements etc. These commitments then make it neven harder for a future president to undo the agreement.
So the Senate has now realized the worst of all possible worlds. The oversight aspect is a joke and the terrible agreement has the force of a treaty.
I don’t care what kind of advance “agreement” the senate made with the president. If an international treaty is not confirmed by two thirds of the senate, it is null and void and carries no weight whatsoever.
Obama’s deal with Iran is an executive agreement, not a treaty. The Senate should have stood its ground and let Obama freelance the deal with Iran while making it clear that it was not a treaty and did not have Senate approval. This is Andrew McCarthy’s perspective and is what Tom Cotton was trying to do. This is also what Ted Cruz tried to do initially by attempting to add an amendment to the Corker bill that would have scuttled it, leaving Obama on his own.
It’s still freelance. If he doesn’t get two thirds of the senate to confirm it, it’s dead. Obama can’t change the constitution. The senate cannot change the constitution. Even together in an agreement, they can’t change the constitution. Not without following the constitutional requirements for constitutional amendments, including ratification by the states. Obama, Corker, et al, are full of crap.
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