Posted on 08/11/2015 1:11:15 PM PDT by Dave346
Kerry also stated that the US walking away from the deal would remove any legitimacy for a potential military strike against Iran should it pursue nuclear weapons.
If the United States walks away from the nuclear deal struck with Iran last month in Vienna and demands that its allies comply with US sanctions, the dollar may soon cease to be the world's reserve currency, the top US diplomat said on Monday.
"If we turn around and nix the deal and then tell them, you're going to have to obey our rules and sanctions anyway, that is a recipe, very quickly .... for the American dollar to cease to be the reserve currency of the world," US Secretary of State John Kerry said at a Reuters Newsmaker event.
He added that it would be impossible for Iran, under the nuclear agreement between Iran and major powers, to create a secret program for developing atomic fuel without the United States being able to detect it.
Kerry acknowledged that Iran had clearly pursued nuclear weapons technology in the past. He said, however, that they had not recently pursued a weapon and their had been a fight within the country over whether they should, a debate that ended with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issuing a fatwa against nuclear weapons.
He said that the hard-liners of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards still want a nuclear weapon, and are opposed to the agreement, but the president and supreme leader have adopted an agreement now in which they say that they never want a nuclear weapon.
Kerry reiterated that there is no better deal, saying that former president George W. Bush had tried to get a better deal and had failed. Iran's nuclear program had only grown during those previous efforts.
"They became a nuclear threshold nation while we had a policy of no enrichment," he said. "Only President Obama has put in to place a program that has rolled back their program. We are already in year two of compliance," he said.
Rejecting the argument of those who say that the deal allows Iran to pursue nuclear weapons after the agreement "sunsets," Kerry said, "The no vote takes 20 or 15 years from now and makes it tomorrow."
The sanctions regime which brought Iran to the negotiating table was "already fraying," Kerry argued, stating that this made making the deal now all the more necessary.
He rejected the argument that the US is strong enough to force its allies to stick to the sanctions regime if Washington walks away from the deal. "Are you kidding me? We'll be able to force them to do what we want them to do after we walked away from a deal?"
Kerry also stated that the US walking away from the deal would remove any legitimacy for a potential military strike against Iran should it pursue nuclear weapons. "Can you imagine Israel and the US taking military action because we forced a situation when we had a deal in place?" he asked.
He reiterated his belief that the deal is the best way to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
"If Iran tries to break out to a bomb we will know it to a certainty," Kerry said. "We have a lifetime of inspection rights any time we have suspicions," he added.
Israel and all of the Gulf states are safer with this deal than without it, Kerry argued.
He said that there is a military option and Obama is prepared to use it if necessary, but he prefers to give diplomacy a chance.
The reason Shumer is against it is because there will be “just enough senators voting for it”. Rest assured that if there were not, he’d vote for it.
House Republican Majority leader Kevin McCarthy says there’s a chance Congress can muster enough Democratic votes to override a presidential veto in support of the Iran nuclear deal.
“I’m basing that on what I hear from the other side of the aisle, from individual members who talk to me,” McCarthy, who is leading a visit of 36 GOP House members to Israel, said Tuesday in an interview in Jerusalem.
Obama has threatened to override Congress if it votes against the accord world powers reached with Iran last month. If the Republican majorities in Congress vote as a bloc against it, they will need 44 Democrats in the House of Representatives and 13 in the Senate to knock down the veto. At least seven House Democrats, including New York Representative Eliot Engel, and that state’s senior Democratic senator, Charles Schumer, have announced they will oppose the agreement.
“When you look at an Eliot Engel or a Schumer, they are leaders in their caucus, this is an issue they lead on when it comes to foreign policy,” said McCarthy, a California lawmaker. Obama’s remarks last week characterizing opponents of the Iran deal as preferring war to diplomacy show he is desperately “trying to focus mainly on just holding enough Democrats to beat a veto.”
Congress has until Sept. 17 to vote on the agreement.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-11/house-gop-leader-sees-chance-to-override-obama-veto-on-iran-vote
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It is not dead yet? Jeeez no one but obamma mamba jamma lenin khomeini believes in it, just kill it for fun..
He’s a gigolo.
Isn’t there something in the Bible about the whole world will be against Israel and that includes us.
Because of one man we have had to put up with so much. To borrow a line from Jarrett, “there is going to be hell to pay” when its time.
What Zobm really means is that HIS dollars will suffer if the deal doesn’t go through. He’ll be a few billion short of where he wants to be if it doesnt.
WHO ALOEWED A TREATY TO BECOME A STATUTORY VETO?? THE GD GOPE!!
What 0 really means is that HIS dollars will suffer if the deal doesn’t go through. He’ll be a few billion short of where he wants to be...
I don't know - - too many different interpertations for me to get involved in a discussion about all that. What I do know is that Israel will do what ever it takes to prevent another holocaust.
Corker - Tennessee
LOL
I thought only the Senate reviewed these types of agreements.
Israel needs to nuke those murdering pigs at the exact same moment that the anti-Israel/anti-American commie fags in the so called senate (intentionally not capitaized) pass this “deal”.
John John lives in his own private universe!
I can barely wait until these dopes are run out of town.
The vote will be in September and those who are up on this get to wonder about it until then. But, in Israel -they get to worry about it- until then.
I too can’t wait until this administration packs their ‘stuff’...and gets out of the WH. And Kerry gets lost on the way.
He may well get lost...before that event occurs.
Im thinking he was recovering [partially].....from something mental....when he was allegedly laid up with a broken leg..
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