Vance: Iran can have access to $300B reconstruction fund
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2 hours ago
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| thehill.com
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mdp2021
56 minutes ago
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I would campaign that the deal be fulfilled with private money instead of public funds.

(Or, act to show - roots and consequences - that this should be the proper procedure.)

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3eb7988a1663
1 hour ago
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Surely such a deal would have to be approved by Congress, right? Would they really have the votes?
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WarOnPrivacy
1 hour ago
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> Surely such a deal would have to be approved by Congress, right?

That's the law. But Congress is abdicating much of it's power. The SCotUS defers to the WhiteHouse (ex:sides with the admin 90% of the time). The mechanisms that foster ethics in the 3 branches are being intentionally sabotaged by the majority in power.

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joxdosba
26 minutes ago
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What is congress going to do? Say “never negotiate with the US”?

It’s not like congress can very feasibly reject this deal in the end, Iran would just extort the gulf countries and it’d be even harder to sell an intervention.

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3eb7988a1663
13 minutes ago
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Iran has been bombed at least twice during negotiations. Surely there is some skepticism that the US will not keep the deal.

There is no winning move -which is why this never should have been started. Congress absolutely can and should reject the deal. I thought we were worried about the deficit? Or is that just when the next guy is in charge?

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joxdosba
2 minutes ago
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If the congress rejects this deal, it cripples the US ability to negotiate in the future and essentially just forces an unconditional US surrender as nobody has appetite for a ground invasion of Iran.

Congress can only sabotage deals like this at an immense cost to the US’s future ability to negotiate anything with anyone, and it certainly can’t sabotage it’s way into a more favourable deal.

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nixon_why69
8 minutes ago
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The article says "funded by the gulf coast coalition" so it doesn't sound like they're planning on asking Congress.

No way congress passes that appropriation. They wouldn't pass the first JCPOA which is why Trump could shred it so easily.

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joxdosba
4 minutes ago
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>No way congress passes that appropriation

No way congress passes an appropriation you just invented, which even the most optimistic Iranian propagandists are not claiming to be happening?

I mean yeah. Most random things you can come up with are likely to be things that congress will never pass.

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nixon_why69
22 seconds ago
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Who invented? It's the headline of the article, attributed to Vance. Yes, there's been a lot of conflicting messaging about it.
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bediger4000
35 minutes ago
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Why was it bad for Obama to release much less than this to assure the earlier joint agreement? We heard a lot about how bad that was. Pallets of cash they said, real bad.
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newtonianrules
13 minutes ago
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Because Democrats are held to different standards. I mean just look at the last year.
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