In realizing the Congressional deadline was December 15, 2017, there is another recertification coming up in January. Perhaps if the US Congress FINALLY admits Iran is upholding the agreement they could recertify the agreement.
December 28, 2017
By Michael Crowley
President Donald Trump (click here) allowed the Iran nuclear deal to survive through 2017, but the new year will offer him another chance to blow up the agreement — and critics and supporters alike believe he may take it.
By mid-January, the president will face new legal deadlines to choose whether to slap U.S. sanctions back on Tehran. Senior lawmakers and some of Trump's top national security officials are trying to preserve the agreement. But the deal's backers fear Trump has grown more willing to reject the counsel of his foreign policy team, as he did with his recent decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital....
P5 + 1 may turn into P4 + 1. The USA is completely foolish to attempt to derail the Iran nuclear agreement. If the agreement was completely dissolved Iran could immediately return to nuclear proliferation and guaranteed there will never be an agreement in the future. To dissolve the agreement will be to put Israel in immediate danger should the Iranian nuclear program restart.
The US Congress promised to uphold the certification when the US State Department announces Iran is in compliance. If the Republican Congress again refuses their responsibility in the face of a populous President, they need to go. 2018 should clean out the Republican swamp once and for all.
This majority Republican Congress has a real disdain for the poor, the middle class, children and the elderly. No one needs the added stress this Congress is bringing to the most vulnerable Americans. If Congress can't do it's job in certifying AGREEMENTS when conditions are met, then perhaps the Ameican people should take back their country in 2018 and hopefully, the international community will be patient until then.
December 30, 2017
By Daniel Chaitin
This week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (click here) sought to correct the record with Kentucky news outlets after an editorial and political cartoon cast the blame on him for a new tax on a local college that prides itself on its Christian values and helping low-income students.
McConnell wrote opinion pieces for both the Courier-Journal and the Lexington Herald-Leader to explain that the new tax impacting Berea College as a result of the tax overhaul spearheaded by GOP leadership should be pinned on the "hypocrisy coming from Senate Democrats" and not himself....
