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State Department Affirms That Iran Deal Is Only a Political Commitment

Matthew Weybrecht   Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 2:10 PM

In a letter recently released by Representative Mike Pompeo (R-KS), the State Department emphasized that the Iran deal – the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – is not binding under international law. The letter was in response to Pompeo’s inquiry about why the JCPOA transmitted to Congress lacked signatures. The State Department said, in part:

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More Weak Arguments For The Illegality of the Iran Deal

Jack Goldsmith   Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 2:46 PM

David Rivkin and Lee Casey maintain in the WSJ that the Iranian Nuclear Deal “is unconstitutional, violates international law and features commitments that President Obama could not lawfully make,” and that “state and local Iran-related sanctions” might “set off a legal clash over American domestic law and the country’s international obligations” that could “prompt the deal to unravel.”

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Two Debates on Iran

Yishai Schwartz   Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 1:29 PM

As Congress begins its consideration of the Iran deal, the public debate has become increasingly frustrating. Or more precisely, what is so frustrating is that two distinct debates have thus far been hopelessly conflated.

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The New UNSCR on Iran: Does it Bind the United States (and future Presidents)?

John Bellinger   Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 4:58 PM

Colum Lynch and John Hudson have an article in Foreign Policy provocatively entitled “Obama Turns to U.N. to Outmaneuver Congress” in which they suggest that the new U.N. Security Council Resolution likely to be adopted next week will tie the hands of future Presidents and that the United States would violate the Resolution if Congress votes down the Iran nuclear deal.

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