Some real poison pills in it. Its good that the senator has stepped back. Its bare and it sends a message, but i dont think the message has to be brought to a vote. I agree and i just wanted to add i know we are on capitol hill and there are many staffers from the Republican Democratic sides. Congress has already played an Important Role. Iran is at the table in large part because of the sanctions booted into play the european union. So the congress has done a very effective job sending the signal and enhancing our leverage that we might look to the history to just recall how america has built with different crises in the past with the president in support. When president jefferson dealt with in the 19th century or Theodore Roosevelt in the japanese war of 1905. Franklin roosevelt in trying to negotiate to pretend before the second cold war these are all examples went on an exceedingly important Vital National security issue the interest of the president to lead. Congress always has th
Confess that iran was engaged in Nuclear Weapons related activities, given all of this. So i think negotiators are going to have to be very resourceful in finding a way to resolve this. I think the key will be to frame the issue in such a way that iran doesnt have to admit past guilt, but provide sufficient information to satisfy us that some activities engaged in the past do not have implications for covert programs in the future. Thats going to be hard, that its going to be essential. And the final issue i will mention is duration but if you look at the joint plan of action, it only says at the end that the conference of agreement will be of longterm duration. The parties could Reach Agreement on a precise number of years. It becomes very important because another element of the joint plan of action is that once this comprehensive agreement expires, then iran will be treated in the same way as any nonnuclear weapon states party to the npt. And what that means is that perhaps some of
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