Said The Guardian , the British, said two senior pro - American President Donald Trump in the US Senate, namely Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Lindsey Graham, Ihthanh to abort an attempt to return the nuclear deal.
Cruz and Graham urged Trump to put the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate agreement before the Senate for a vote on them, in one of the last-minute attempts to thwart Democrats' plans to return America to those agreements.
Republicans retain control of the Senate.
In the message RealClearPolitics received, Senator Ted Cruz urged both Trump and his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, to sow the seeds of a final confrontation over the two crucial international agreements in the early days of the Biden administration.
And "Putting agreements before the Senate enables Trump to pave the way for a vote that may fail to achieve the two-thirds ratio required to ratify the agreements, and then block the way for Biden's efforts to return the United States to harmony with its international allies in support of those agreements," according to Cruz's message.
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Cruz's ploy begins with praising Trump's decision to withdraw America from both the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which limits its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, and the 2016 Paris climate accords to reduce global emissions of the pollution responsible for the climate crisis.
"I urge you now to remedy the damage to the balance of power, by putting the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris accord before the Senate for a vote on them as treaties. Only by doing so will the Senate fulfill its constitutional role to recommend or approve," Cruz wrote. Any future administration sought to revive these dangerous agreements. "
Biden had pledged to re-join the Paris Agreement on the first day of his presidency, in addition to that he would revive the Iranian nuclear agreement, which he considered a major goal of his foreign policy, and in both cases this will be done by using his executive powers instead of relying on Congress.
On the other hand, Cruz hopes that his plan will overcome Biden's intentions by introducing these agreements to become foreign agreements that require ratification of the support of the two-thirds majority in the Senate; Hence, the inability to achieve this majority - and achieve it impossible in the bipartisan house narrowly divided between the two parties - would undermine any unilateral action by Biden.
Likewise, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham had begun paving the way for the same goal. In a series of tweets he posted last week, on Twitter, he said that he was working hard "to secure a vote in the US Senate on any possible decision to rejoin Iran nuclear deal. "
And the Senate must record its opinion, whether in support or opposition to this resolution, according to Graham, who did not raise this matter until days before Biden assumed the presidency of the White House.
It is reported that Trump withdrew in May 2018 from the agreement reached with Iran during the era of his predecessor, Barack Obama. It re-imposed strict economic sanctions on Iran, targeting the oil and financial sectors.
But Biden promised that he would prioritize returning his country to the agreement and considering lifting sanctions, but he would ask Iran to first comply with the terms of the agreement.
While Tehran adheres to the old nuclear agreement, refusing to talk about a new agreement, the various parties want to revive the nuclear agreement with Iran, the West hints that it wants more additions and expanding the old formula.