Congress Confers on Iran Sanctions; Rice: Sanctions Near from the UN
David Streeter — April 29, 2010 – 12:50 pm | Congress | Foreign Policy | Iran | Israel Comments (2) Add a commentMembers of the House of Representatives and the Senate held their first mark-up meeting yesterday focused on reconciling the Iran sanctions legislation passed by each respective chamber. JTA reported that additional meetings will take place throughout the coming weeks.
On the international front, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice announced that the UN Security Council will be discussing fresh Iran sanctions in the coming weeks. Rice’s announcement followed her meeting with Israel’s delegation to the UN as well as Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon. Additionally, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is making a major push to get China on board with the proposed sanctions.
Given this progress, it appears that Senior Advisor to President Obama David Axelrod correctly characterized the global effort to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran during last week’s NJDC dinner held in his honor:
“When the President took office, Iran was united, and the world was divided in its approach to the nuclear threat there.
Today, Iran is bitterly divided and the world is united as never before in its determination to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. And I believe that determination will soon express itself through credible sanctions in the United Nations.”
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Iran has gone overboard with its development towards nuclear weapons. Whatever action to be taken against it, should not been seen as aggression but collective persuasion that include other nations.
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Are there no other means to stop Iran from nuclear arming other than war or sanctions? All previous sanctions had burdened the population but the rogue governments; the UN with its supportive nations is seen as a bully by Muslims.