Thursday, September 3, 2015

IMPORTANT! PLEASE SHARE: Let States Do the Job Obama Won’t: Sanction Iran

Burning the American flag in Tehran last year to mark 
the 35th anniversary of the Islamic revolution. 
Photo: Getty Images
Ask your State's Senators, Congressmen, and Governor, If they are aware of this and will they Sanction IRAN and SUPPORT THE MAJORITY IN CONGRESS:
The administration doesn’t want states to ‘interfere’ with its nuclear deal with Tehran.
President Obama’s executive agreement with Iran is enormously controversial for good reason. Negotiated in coordination with Russia, China, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, the deal welcomes Iran as a participant in the world community conditioned only on marginal changes to its nuclear program. It effectively allows Iran to maintain technology that would lead to a nuclear weapon, as well as continue its human-rights abuses, sponsoring of terrorism, imprisoning of American hostages, and threats to American allies, including Israel.
Act of 2010 SUMMARY
Fortunately, the U.S. states have the power to limit these threats, if they all choose to use it.
President Obama pursued this major international accord as an executive agreement, rather than as a treaty, in order to evade the Constitution’s requirement of two-thirds approval by the U.S. Senate for enactment. The consequence of the president’s decision to skirt the people’s representatives in Congress is that the people, through the states, may come to their own decisions regarding sanctions on Iran.
The President looks a little stressed out
To date, 25 states have enacted such sanctions against Iran. This is pursuant to the explicit authorization for such sanctions contained in the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010, in which Congress found “that the United States should support the decision of any State or local government that for moral, prudential, or reputational reasons divests from, or prohibits the investment of assets of the State or local government in” Iran. These sanctions were bipartisan accomplishments in states from New York to Florida to Texas to California, and they were passed as expressions of those states’ disapproval of a regime that holds American citizens in darkened cells and American allies under threat of annihilation.
Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed during July 28 congressional testimony that President Obama’s deal does not affect the states’ ability to impose sanctions on Iran, but said that the administration “will take steps to urge [the states] not to interfere,” because President Obama had, as part of the deal, agreed to “actively encourage” the states to drop their sanctions.
We urge states to do exactly the opposite. Rather than drop their sanctions against Iran, states should strengthen and expand those sanctions. Regardless of President Obama’s view of Iran, the states certainly have numerous moral and reputational reasons to prohibit the investment of public assets, such as pension funds, into companies doing business with countries that sponsor terrorism, and to prohibit state agencies from doing business with such companies.(emphasis and link is mine)
Read the rest of Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) op-ed HERE.

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