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Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts) Thu Mar 12, 2015, 04:24 PM Mar 2015

Exclusive: Talks under way on ending U.N. sanctions on Iran - officials/Reuters

Take that, Idiots(R).

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-iran-nuclear-idUSKBN0M82IS20150312

Major world powers have quietly begun talks on a U.N. Security Council resolution to lift U.N. sanctions on Iran if a nuclear agreement is struck, a step that could make it harder for the U.S. Congress to undo a deal, Western officials said.

The talks between Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — the five permanent members of the Security Council — plus Germany and Iran, are taking place ahead of difficult negotiations that resume next week over constricting Tehran's nuclear ability.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Congress on Wednesday that an Iran nuclear deal would not be legally binding, meaning future presidents could decide not to implement it. That point was emphasized in an open letter by 47 Republican senators sent on Monday to Iran's leaders asserting any deal could be discarded once President Barack Obama leaves office in January 2017

But a Security Council resolution on a nuclear deal with Iran could be legally binding, say Western diplomatic officials, complicating and possibly undercutting future attempts by Republicans in Washington to unravel an agreement.

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Exclusive: Talks under way on ending U.N. sanctions on Iran - officials/Reuters (Original Post) Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2015 OP

Checkmate Republicans. herding cats Mar 2015 #1

I just read an article that Netanyahoos drop in the polls is partly due to the speech. Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2015 #2

So BIbi doubles down by using his Congress speech as an election ad prop? Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #4

Is Kerry playing a game with congress? Renew Deal Mar 2015 #3

herding cats

(19,565 posts)

1. Checkmate Republicans.

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 04:33 PM

Mar 2015

I don't hold out all that much hope for these talks, but this does sweeten the deal for Iran. As an added bonus the U.S. politicians seeking more sanctions just choked on their spit. I wonder what impact these talks, if any, will have on Netanyahu?

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

2. I just read an article that Netanyahoos drop in the polls is partly due to the speech.

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 04:41 PM

Mar 2015

http://www.wsj.com/articles/netanyahu-slips-in-polls-days-before-israeli-elections-1426117667

Less than a week before Israel’s general elections, the party of incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu has begun to fall behind an opponent who promises to restart talks with Palestinians and smooth the prime minister’s notoriously rocky relations with the White House.

Two polls on Wednesday put Isaac Herzog, leader of the dovish Labor Party, slightly ahead and suggest that support for Mr. Netanyahu and his Likud party among working-class Jews has eroded because of their widespread perception that he has focused on nuclear threats from Iran and extremist Muslims at the expense of economic problems.

“He’s talking about something that isn’t relevant—Iran and ISIS,’’ said Avi Biton, owner of a snack bar and a Likud voter in previous elections. “Today my kids don’t have the ability to settle down and buy a house. If they can’t do that, this country has no reason to exist.”

Polls by Israel Army Radio and the daily Haaretz released on Wednesday showed Mr. Herzog’s Zionist Union, a new, center-left alliance of the Labor Party with another political faction, winning 24 of the 120 seats in the Knesset, or parliament, to 21 for Likud party. A survey on Tuesday by Channel 2 television showed Zionist Union picking up 25 seats to Likud’s 21.

The polls show Mr. Netanyahu, who is seeking a fourth term as prime minister, lost support after his speech to Congress last week warning against the terms of a nuclear deal being negotiated between six world powers and Iran.[...] Some retired generals criticized Mr. Netanyahu for alienating Israel’s most important ally.

Fred Sanders

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4. So BIbi doubles down by using his Congress speech as an election ad prop?

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 06:04 PM

Mar 2015

What else can you do if FEAR is your entire platform, cleverly borrowed from Republicans? You have to double down on the fear.

A crushing Bibi defeat would also be a crushing Republican defeat, by proxy.

Renew Deal

(81,866 posts)

3. Is Kerry playing a game with congress?

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 04:51 PM

Mar 2015

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