Schumer: Iran wins in nuclear agreement
November 24, 2013, 12:11 pm
By Bernie Becker
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) panned the new nuclear agreement with Iran on Sunday, insisting it “does not seem proportional.”
Schumer, the No. 3 Democrat in the Senate and a strong supporter of Israel, said that Iran got much more than it gave up in the deal.
Some Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill have said that Congress could move forward with further sanctions legislation against Iran, but to delay its implementation for six months to allow time to gauge the deal.
But Schumer would only say Sunday that the agreement makes sanctions more likely, even as he said that he hoped the Obama administration met its goal of hoping to eliminate Iran’s ability to create a nuclear weapon.
“This disproportionality of this agreement makes it more likely that Democrats and Republicans will join together and pass additional sanctions when we return in December,” Schumer said in a statement. “I intend to discuss that possibility with my colleagues.”
Under the deal finalized this weekend, Iran faces relaxed sanctions, at least temporarily. In exchange, Iran agreed to tougher outside inspections and to cap its nuclear stockpile.
US gets screwed again thanks to our lame duck ‘no balls’ President.
This will be about as effective as the same joke of an ‘agreement’ Clinton signed with that dwarf dictator in North Korea.
Its as good as toilet paper.
Schumer is posturing for his constituency. Think about who else would like to cripple Iran back into the stone age. Here’s a hint: it’s a small country on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea which somehow yields a grotesquely distorted amount of influence on the world stage.
#2 is right on the money.