{"id":38414,"date":"2013-11-14T08:12:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T13:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38414"},"modified":"2013-11-14T08:12:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T13:12:19","slug":"kerry-urges-patience-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38414","title":{"rendered":"Kerry urges patience with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

After learning the other day that the Obama Administration has unilaterally decided to relax sanctions on Iran, the French-looking Secretary of State, John Kerry went to Congress yesterday to ask Congress to be patient before instituting more sanctions against Iran, according to the Stars & Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Kerry reminded reporters that as a senator, he joined his then-colleagues in putting the sanctions against Iran in place. But he urged patience for them to work before Congress meddles and decides to increase them, therefore harming a U.S.-led coalition and the talks themselves.<\/p>\n

“We put them in place in order to be able to put us in the strongest position possible to be able to negotiate. We now are negotiating. And the risk is that if Congress were to unilaterally move to raise sanctions, it could break faith with those negotiations and actually stop them and break them apart,” said Kerry, who was testifying before a closed-door committee hearing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How patient are we supposed be? We\u2019ve been puttering around with Iran and their impending nuclear program for more than a decade. These sanctions were supposed to work when we began imposing them during the Bush Administration and Iran hasn\u2019t slowed their march toward nuclear weapons a bit. And, really, can we trust that they\u2019ll abide by any agreement they might reach with Kerry? They\u2019ve been finding ways around sanctions and selling oil on the world market to finance their nuclear weapons development \u2013 so why would we believe them now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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