Some U.S. senators are insisting on renewing expiring sanctions
against the regime in Iran, even as lawmakers decide whether to endorse
the Obama administration’s landmark nuclear deal which was agree to last
week.
Though the Obama administration is calling the move “premature,” Sen.
Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) on Thursday said renewing existing sanctions set
to expire next year will act as a bulwark against Tehran’s ability to
cheat on the deal.
“It seems to me that if you want a deterrent, Iran has to know
consequences,” he told three members of Obama’s Cabinet during a Senate
Foreign Relations Committee hearing Thursday.
“Maybe it will never be called into play. That’s fine, that’s good —
hopefully it won't be called into play,” he added. “But they need to
know what the consequences are.”
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