{"id":99361,"date":"2013-12-16T23:57:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T23:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/congress-wants-iran-sanctions-for-aipac\/"},"modified":"2013-12-16T23:57:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T23:57:55","slug":"congress-wants-iran-sanctions-for-aipac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/congress-wants-iran-sanctions-for-aipac\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress wants Iran sanctions for AIPAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Investigative journalist Dave Lindorff says American lawmakers want further Iran sanctions in order to appease the Zionist lobby.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In an interview with Press TV on Monday, he said there is a desire in Congress to pass new sanctions against Iran so lawmakers can &#65533;&oelig;look tough in support of Israel.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobbying group &#65533;&oelig;has a lot of clout&rdquo; in Congress, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#65533;&oelig;The pro-Israel legislators are trying to throw little wrenches into&rdquo; the Iran deal, the author said. &#65533;&oelig;It&#65533;&trade;s mostly about setting themselves up to get AIPAC support for the next cycle of elections in November.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the US Treasury and State Departments issued new sanctions against a number of companies and individuals for &#65533;&oelig;providing support for&rdquo; Iran&#65533;&trade;s nuclear energy program.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany reached an interim deal in Geneva on November 24 over Tehran&#65533;&trade;s nuclear energy program.<\/p>\n<p>The six-month accord lays the groundwork for a comprehensive resolution to the West&#65533;&trade;s decade-old dispute with Iran over its nuclear energy program.<\/p>\n<p>The Geneva deal has been widely criticized by members of Congress as it allows Iran to continue enriching uranium.<\/p>\n<p>AHT\/AGB<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/12\/16\/340382\/congress-wants-iran-sanctions-for-aipac\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Congress wants Iran sanctions for AIPAC\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigative journalist Dave Lindorff says American lawmakers want further Iran sanctions in order to appease the Zionist lobby. In an interview with Press TV on Monday, he said there is a desire in Congress to pass new sanctions against Iran so lawmakers can &#65533;&oelig;look tough in support of Israel.&rdquo; The American Israel Public Affairs Committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-99361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}