Η αμερικανική Γερουσία είναι πιθανόν να εξετάσει την ψήφιση νομοσχεδίου που θα απειλεί με την επιβολή νέων κυρώσεων εις βάρος του Ιράν αν δεν τηρήσει τους όρους της προσωρινής συμφωνίας για το πυρηνικό του πρόγραμμα, αλλά επίσης θα δίνει στην Τεχεράνη διορία έξι μηνών προτού τεθούν σε ισχύ οι όποιες κυρώσεις, δήλωσε σήμερα γερουσιαστής των Δημοκρατικών.
Αλλά ο Μενέντεζ είπε ότι το νομοσχέδιο θα καθιστά σαφές ότι οι κυρώσεις θα επιβληθούν αν οι συνομιλίες αποτύχουν ή αν το Ιράν δεν εφαρμόσει ή αθετήσει την προσωρινή συμφωνία.
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24/11/13
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Menendez: White House ‘fear-mongering’ on Iran....
ReplyDeleteSen. Robert Menendez on Wednesday sharply criticized the Obama administration for urging Congress not to pass new sanctions on Iran.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman described White House rhetoric on the subject as both “over the top” and “fear-mongering.”
Menendez said he appreciated President Barack Obama’s ultimate goal to find a diplomatic solution with Iran. But he will keep pressing for fresh sanctions that take effect if the country stops cooperating with Western powers, seeking to increase pressure on Iran to reach a permanent nuclear deal.
And Menendez (D-N.J.) made it clear he did not look kindly on White House press secretary Jay Carney’s recent description of the continued push for congressional sanctions as a “march to war.”
“What I don’t appreciate is when I hear remarks out of the White House spokesman that say … if we’re pursuing sanctions we’re marching the country off to war. I think that’s way over the top, I think that’s fear-mongering,” Menendez said on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”
Menendez didn’t dispute that he and other senators might be playing “bad cop” to the Obama administration’s “good cop,” pushing for the Senate to enact a fresh round of penalties on Iran while Obama warns against “tough talk and bluster.”
“We consistently hear about how we have to worry about the hard-liners in Iran. And it seems that the Iranians get to play good cop-bad cop, [Iranian President] Rouhani as the good cop, the hard-liners as the bad cop,” Menendez said.
He described a dual-track diplomacy with the White House that would say to Iran: “‘Hey look. This is what’s coming if you don’t strike a deal.’ And at the same time the administration would say, ‘But if we strike a deal those sanctions will never go into effect.’”
Menendez and other powerful Democrats like Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) have not been shy with their criticism of an interim deal struck by Secretary of State John Kerry that temporarily rolls back sanctions on Iran in return for a slowdown of the country’s nuclear program. They are vowing to work with Republicans on a fresh wave of sanctions when the Senate returns on Dec. 9, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he will “take a look” at.
Many in the Senate believe Iran has gained far more from the deal in return for eased sanctions than it has surrendered on the nuclear front, which critics of the deal see as a poor omen for the U.S. as it pursues a permanent agreement with Iran.
“We basically have the Iranians running in place. But they’re running. Their centrifuges are spinning,” Menendez said. “Basically we are going to roll back some of our sanctions but they are rolling back nothing.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/robert-menendez-iran-deal-100452.html#ixzz2lvsU5DVE
28/11/13