Reply #7: At a gathering for Hillary that I attended [View All]

(for the record, I am not a Clinton supporter, but I did attend this event) I met Congressman Sestak, who was out campaigning for Clinton. He said that the only reason she voted for it was to allow the US to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization so that sanctions could be applied -- he said otherwise, sanctions could not be applied.

Here's Hillary on the matter:
"In what we voted for today, we will have an opportunity to designate it as a terrorist organization, which gives us the options to be able to impose sanctions on the primary leaders to try to begin to put some teeth into all this talk about dealing with Iran," she said.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15198515

Now, I thought we had been imposing US sanctions on Iran since the late '70s, but, what do I know? :shrug: Maybe they are referring to 'new' sanctions.