the lawmaker said that the Swiss diplomat had also quoted Obama as saying that “I didn’t want to impose sanctions on your central bank but I had no options but to approve it since a Congress majority had approved the decision.”
That is so typical of Obama. When I read the other day that he was going to release the sanctions, I said that I thought he couldn't do it because they were law and had been passed by Congress. Well, obviously even he knows he can't attack them directly - yet.
So he does a private back-channel "negotiation" with Iran, without the knowledge of Congress, and presto, it's a fait accompli and the sanctions become meaningless. Obviously, if he says that US policy is now that a nuclear Iran is just find and dandy, there's no need for the sanctions and they will become unenforceable.
If Congress doesn’t do what you want, just go around them.
Doesn’t it say that in the Constitution somewhere?
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