Omri Ceren The Israel Project:In case youre tracking the political angle from this mornings FP scoop about Iran cheating on nuclear sanctions, thought this might help with context... When the Obama administration halted Congresss push for new sanctions, they swore up and down that if the Iranians cheated they would personally race back to the Hill to help craft new legislation. They promised to lead the charge and be the first ones. They said it would happen very quickly and in a day, on a dime (that last line was from President Obama). Some of the examples: Psaki (Nov 2013): if Iran cheats “we’d move to – we’d support moving to additional sanctions. We’d be leading the charge.” state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2013/11/218086.htm Kerry (Dec 2013): if Iran cheats “we will be the first ones to come to you if this fails to ask you for additional sanctions.” state.gov/secretary/remarks/2013/12/218578.htm Carney (Dec 2013): if Iran cheats “we are very confident that we can work with Congress to very quickly pass new, effective sanctions against Iran.” whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/12/19/press-briefing-press-secretary-jay-carney-12192013 President Obama (Dec 2013): “Congress would be more than happy to pass more sanctions legislation. We can do that in a – in a day, on a dime” washingtonpost/politics/running-transcript-president-obamas-december-20-news-conference/2013/12/20/1e4b82e2-69a6-11e3-8b5b-a77187b716a3_story.html Sherman (Dec 2013): if Iran cheats “we would be prepared to work with Congress to ramp up sanctions.” state.gov/p/us/rm/2013/218639.htm Sherman (Feb 2014): if Iran cheats “we have made it clear to Iran… we would ask the Congress to ramp up new sanctions” state.gov/p/us/rm/2014/221217.htm
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:02:04 +0000
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