March 2, 2015 | Quote

Can Obama’s Iran Deal Outlive His Presidency?


Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a skeptic of the nuclear negotiations, said he thinks Congress probably won’t even wait for the next administration to try to thwart any Iran deal.

“The Obama administration is badly miscalculating in believing that it can unilaterally provide durable sanctions relief without congressional buy-in,” he said. “There are many ways that a creative Congress can make it difficult to implement a bad agreement on which they were sidelined.”

Along these lines, some Republican House leaders, including Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, are working on a new Iran-related bill crafted to thwart Obama’s implementation of any deal this year and next. Among other things, the legislation could take away the executive branch’s national security waiver authority, remove the Treasury Department’s flexibility to issue licenses for companies to do business with Iran, and make it harder to undo sanctions designations now on Iranian banks.

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