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Republicans Worry Obama Is Opening Door to New Iran Relief
ABC News ^ | March 24, 2016 | Bradley Klapper, AP

Posted on 03/24/2016 2:15:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The Obama administration is leaving the door open to new sanctions relief for Iran, including possibly long-forbidden access to the U.S. financial market, prompting increased concern from Republican opponents of last year's nuclear deal.

Rep. Ed Royce, the House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, expressed alarm in a letter this week to the president that the U.S. could grant Iranian businesses the ability to conduct transactions in dollars within the United States or through offshore banks. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said he is "deeply troubled" by the possibility.

The concession would go a long way to meet Iran's complaints that it hasn't been sufficiently rewarded by the West for taking thousands of uranium-spinning centrifuges offline, exporting its stockpile of the bomb-making material and disabling a facility that would have been able to produce weapons-grade plutonium.

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1 posted on 03/24/2016 2:15:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How about some reparations for the Cuba embargo.


2 posted on 03/24/2016 2:20:22 PM PDT by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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To: Zuse
How about some reparations for the Cuba embargo.

Why not? All he has to do is reach into his Obama stash.

3 posted on 03/24/2016 2:24:35 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (The would-be Empress has no clothes. My eyes!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Republicans Worry Obama Is Opening Door to New Iran Relief

If only the voters had given them some power in Washington.

4 posted on 03/24/2016 2:49:24 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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Republicans Worry Obama Is Opening Door to New Iran Relief

So, what do they plan to do about it? Absolutely nothing, just like they always do.

5 posted on 03/24/2016 2:49:59 PM PDT by Mark17 (Thank God I have Jesus, there's more wealth in my soul than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
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Worry? Why, they’re his willing enablers and collaborators.


6 posted on 03/24/2016 2:57:18 PM PDT by Salvey
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Worried? Really?

Gee—I thought the House, in which the GOP holds the majority, has control of the purse.


7 posted on 03/24/2016 2:57:23 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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Worry? Why, they’re his willing enablers and collaborators.

Yes, maybe they are just saying they are worried, for show purposes, nothing more than that. They think they are fooling us. They are not.

8 posted on 03/24/2016 3:15:04 PM PDT by Mark17 (Thank God I have Jesus, there's more wealth in my soul than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This just means that the Republicans were in on it from the beginning, and they are looking for cover.


9 posted on 03/24/2016 6:42:57 PM PDT by eyeamok
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