...What happened to the Iran Certification by Congress?
All of a sudden, Congress is back to health care when all they had to do was pass a veto proof one line bill that certifies Iran's nuclear agreement.
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (click here)
Vienna, 14 July 2015
The JCPOA cannot be amended. It is an international document and while the Congress wants to drop more and more conditions on the agreement, it is a vastly more complicated document. The USA alone does not enforce the JCPOA. Any changes would require new proceedings with the United Nations.
So, Congress simply has to validate the certification, which is known and is now entered into international law and then move on to ask the United Nation's Ambassador to pursue agreements with allies on other concerns with Iran. Most of those concerns already exist in one document or another at the UN.
Congress needs to do it's job.
