Posted on 01/27/2015 6:05:46 PM PST by jazusamo
U.N. gives mixed signals on Tehran cooperation as nuclear talks intensify
Senate Democrats on Tuesday backed away from a bipartisan push for immediate new sanctions on Iran, bowing to President Obama’s call not to undercut international talks to get Tehran to curb its nuclear programs in the coming weeks.
The shift, announced Tuesday by Sen. Robert Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat and one of the party’s outspoken hawks on Iran, came amid a series of mixed signals from the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency over the question of whether Tehran was honoring promises to put its suspect nuclear programs on hold as the talks intensified.
Mr. Obama has found himself increasingly at odds not only with Republicans but with members of his own party over the nuclear talks, which have been extended twice over the past year as the U.S. and its partners — Germany, Britain, Russia, China, France and Germany — have been unable to strike a deal with the Islamic Republic.
The delay also comes despite new fears that Iran is growing increasingly emboldened in the region following the coup carried out this month by Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim Houthis in Yemen, ousting a key U.S. ally in the fight against al Qaeda.
Mr. Menendez had previously co-authored legislation to tighten sanctions if there is no deal by the end of June, but he said Tuesday that he and other party leaders want to give the Obama administration until at least March 24 before throwing their weight behind the legislation — and they’ll only support it if there’s no agreement in place with Tehran by then.
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Anti-American scumbags. Period.
Democrats bow to Obama, and Obama bows to any old Muslim leader there is.
Well now that Menendez has that off his schedule, he’ll have more time for his Dominican hookers!
Exactly, Dominican hookers of the teenage type.
LOL! I’ve no doubt that’s for real!
And some of the Republicans as well.
Bubba knows.
bump
Democrats are beyond disgusting. They’ll sell out the country at the drop of a hat to please their masters.
Didn’t the WH recently threaten those Democrats if they opposed him on Iran?
Guess they were made an offer they couldn’t refuse
I’m sure they did, bambam must have been furious when Menendez had the audacity to go up against him and I’m no fan of Menendez.
Democrats think they’re still in charge or is it still blocking for Obama
The same mainstream media that has been hysterically warning New York City that two feet of snow was about to fall on it, is completely oblivious of the fact that long-range Iranian missiles with nuclear warheads are being put in place that will also fall on it, unless they’re destroyed.
Yet our president is doing everything possible to aid Iran in its preparations to annihilate what the evil ayatollahs call The Great Satan — the U.S. — as opposed to the Little Satan, Israel, which has no reason to worry about long-range missiles.
But if Chuck Schumer doesn’t care enough to impose sanctions against Iran to try to save his fellow New Yorkers from another Islamic hit — a 9/11 on steroids — then why should any other Senators be expected to?
That picture made me literally LOL.
It is a funny one! 8^)
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