[Peace-discuss] News-Gazette letter: Iran nuke deal is a good start

[Carl G. Estabrook]

"...Like others, Rep. Rodney Davis (R., Ill.) said that only new sanctions will push Iran to make concessions 'that would eliminate their enrichment capabilities.'"

--<http://freebeacon.com/congress-to-obama-cancel-iran-deal/>.

Cf. <http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20131125/BLOGS02/131129874/chicago-area-congressmen-mostly-frown-on-iran-deal#>.



On Dec 9, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:

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> http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/2013-12-08/iran-nuke-deal-good-start.html
> 
> Iran nuke deal is a good start
> Sun, 12/08/2013 - 7:00am | The News-Gazette
> The interim nuclear deal recently reached by the United States and Iran is historic. For the first time since current multilateral efforts to negotiate limits to Iran's nuclear program began under the George W. Bush Administration, the U.S. has reached a deal with Iran that imposes verifiable limits on Iran's nuclear program.
> 
> U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin has supported this agreement. He told a radio station in Alton, "Let's go forward with the negotiation with our eyes wide open, but with inspectors on the ground we'll be able to tell whether they're in fact doing what they say they're going to do."
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> Unfortunately, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk has taken the opposite approach, attacking the agreement and trying to tie the hands of American diplomats by imposing unrealistic goals on U.S. diplomats that few experts believe can be achieved without another disastrous Middle East war.
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> U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis has not yet taken a public position on the deal. I hope that he will oppose calls for more sanctions on Iran now that would likely undermine diplomatic progress towards a final agreement to resolve international concerns about Iran's nuclear program.
> 
> ROBERT NAIMAN
> 
> Urbana
> 
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