Even in the event that Congress fails to block President Barack Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran deal, the arrangement raises serious questions that the Obama administration and Congress must address. What, in particular, will become of the non-nuclear related American and European sanctions regimes against Iranians supporting terrorism and human rights violations? The right choice is for Congress to codify those sanctions in place immediately, to ensure that there is no room for debate about terrorism and tyranny.
The moral underpinnings of the Iran deal — the reason the president argues it is not a capitulation to Iran — are found in the notion that there is nuclear roll-back; but just as importantly, the president argues, there are no concessions on the other areas in which Iran behaves as a rogue nation. But is that truly so? Treasury Department officials have testified that those sanctions will remain, but if the executive branch has its way, nothing will be clear until Treasury releases new guidelines this fall.
Acting Treasury Undersecretary Adam Szubin recently testified that “more than 225 Iran-linked persons will remain designated and subject to sanctions” under the JCPOA, adding, “It is worth emphasizing that our sanctions authorities will continue to affect foreign financial institutions that transact with these more than 200 Iranian persons on our Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN), as well as persons who provide material or other types of support to Iranian SDNs.” It is less clear that the Iranians see things in this way, since President Hassan Rouhani continues to repeat that “after the agreement is implemented, the economic sanctions will be immediately removed, meaning financial, banking, insurance, transportation, petrochemical sanctions; all economic sanctions will be removed.”
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