IRAN – A HILLARY-OBAMA BREACH? – AT 9:56 A.M. ET: New missile tests by Iran are putting some distance between Hillary Clinton and the aging Obama administration. But don't get your hopes up. From The Hill:
Iran's ballistic missile tests are reigniting the debate over sanctions and putting new pressure on the Obama administration.
Republicans, and many Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, are calling for a strong response, after Iran test-fired ballistic missiles twice last week, in defiance of international law. They were the first tests since an international nuclear deal with Iran took effect earlier this year.
Lawmakers are particularly incensed over the second day of testing, when Iran reportedly fired missiles with the words "Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth" written in Hebrew -- an explicit threat to a close U.S. ally.
Republicans say the test is a blatant violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, which calls upon Iran not to conduct any launches of ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering a nuclear weapon. Iran has denied that the tests did so.
GOP lawmakers seized upon the tests as evidence Iran could not be trusted to uphold the nuclear deal, which lifted heavy sanctions on Iran in exchange for limits to its nuclear program, and blasted the Obama administration as naive.
"Conducting ballistic missile tests is akin to throwing dirt in the face of the entire free world. And it reveals Iran has little intention of abiding by the terms of the nuclear deal it agreed to just months ago," said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.).
Republicans say the U.S. sanctions imposed by the administration earlier this year in response to similar tests in October and November are too weak, and vowed to press ahead with new sanctions.
"Clearly the current ballistic missile sanctions regime is ineffective," Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said earlier this week.
He told reporters the Senate is working to extend the Iran Sanctions Act, which expires at the end of the year and hinted at other sanctions legislation to cover Iran's conventional weapons and ballistic missile development.
"There is already a strong bipartisan movement in the Senate to act," he said.
COMMENT: Yeah, right, until Field Marshal Obama cracks the whip, as he did with the absurd Iran nuclear deal. Watch the Democrats fall right in line.
Iran is laughing at us. I'm sure the mullahs fell off their chairs reading the recent interview with the field marshal in Atlantic, wherein Obama seemed to blame America's allies for most of his troubles. Damn pro-American stooges, always trying to survive! Have they not understood the wisdom of Barack?
March 14, 2016 |