Can the President Lift Sanctions on Iran Without Congress Reviewing Iran’s Deal with the IAEA?
No. "Sanctions are fundamentally in Congress’s exclusive power."
September 18, 2015
Can the President Lift Sanctions on Iran Without Congress Reviewing Iran’s Deal with the IAEA?
No. "Sanctions are fundamentally in Congress’s exclusive power."
The Corker-Cardin act, passed in May, requires that the Iran deal be presented to Congress in its entirety and gives Congress a 30-day window in which to approve or disapprove it. Eugene Kontorovich argues that, until Congress has seen the “side-deals” between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the executive branch has not fulfilled the terms of Corker-Cardin, and therefore cannot remove sanctions:
September 18, 2015
Is the European Far Right Shedding Its Anti-Semitism?
Or is it professing love for Israel as a political tactic?
The Ritual-Murder Accusation and the Roots of Medieval Anti-Semitism
How the death of a boy in 12th-century England gave birth to a libel that won’t die.
The Many Ironies of the Migrant Crisis
Israel does more to help refugees than Saudi Arabia.