Despite a legal obligation to allow Congress to review the Iran
nuclear agreement for 60 days, the Obama administration will press ahead
with a U.N. Security Council resolution enshrining the deal, likely
within days.
“We will be introducing a U.N. Security Council
resolution perhaps as early as next week,” a senior administration
official told reporters in a background conference call from Vienna,
hours after the final agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action (JCPOA) was announced.
The official said the resolution wording had already been drafted in Vienna, with the U.S. in the lead.
In
New York, a diplomat at the U.N. told the Associated Press the U.S.
will circulate the draft on Wednesday morning, while back in Vienna,
Secretary of State John Kerry said implementation of the agreement with
Iran will begin “within 90 days of the U.N. Security Council endorsing
the deal.”
Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Ed Royce
(R-Calif.) expressed concern about what he called a “rush to the U.N.”
on the part of the administration.
After chairing a hearing
Tuesday on the implications of the nuclear deal, Royce said he discussed
the matter in a phone call with Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken.
“I
urged that the Obama administration not seek action at the U.N.
Security Council on the agreement before Congress can review it in
detail during the legislatively-mandated congressional review period,”
Royce said.
The administration is pushing for quick action in the
Security Council despite President Obama’s assertions that he welcomes
congressional examination of the JCPOA.
“I welcome a robust debate
in Congress on this issue and I welcome scrutiny of the details of this
agreement,” he said in his Tuesday morning JCPOA announcement.
The
60-day review period mandated by Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act,
signed by Obama in May, can only begin once the administration submits
the full text, along with annexes and related material including
assessments on compliance and non-proliferation, to Congress.
The
House Foreign Affairs Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee
will then hold hearings on the agreement, and Congress may then vote on a
joint resolution approving the agreement, or one rejecting it. It may
also take no action, although Senate Foreign Relations Committee
chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) indicated Tuesday that a vote could take
place in early September.
Should a resolution of disapproval be
passed, Obama confirmed on Tuesday that he would veto it – a move that
would require two-thirds supermajority to override.
“Precisely
because the stakes are so high this is not the time for politics or
posturing,” Obama said in comments aimed at a skeptical Congress. “Tough
talk from Washington does not solve problems. Hard-nosed diplomacy,
leadership that has united the world's major powers offers a more
effective way to verify that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon.”
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again breaking "OUR" law! Have we not had a belly full of this illegal
actions by the president? Shut him down now or we as a nation will not
last! We as a nation will be done. How much more treason and criminality
are going to take! REMOVAL! REMOVAL! REMOVAL!
Glad I'm not the only one that see's Obama as straight up jerk. Congress,what a joke. We need TRUMP!!!