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In another resolution apparently designed to prepare for war against
Iran, the U.S. House of Representatives, in an overwhelmingly bipartisan
401–11 vote, has passed a resolution (HR 568)
urging the president to oppose any policy toward Iran “that would rely
on containment as an option in response to the Iranian nuclear threat.”
With its earlier decision to pass a bill
that effectively sought to ban any negotiations between the United
States and Iran, a huge bipartisan majority of Congress has essentially
told the president that nothing short of war or the threat of war is an
acceptable policy. Indeed, the rush to pass this bill appears to have
been designed to undermine the ongoing international negotiations on
Iran’s nuclear program. According to Iranian-American analyst Jamal Abdi,
a prominent critic of both the Iranian regime and U.S. policy, the
motivation for the resolution may be to “poison those talks by signaling
to Iran that the President is weak, domestically isolated, and unable
to deliver at the negotiating table because a hawkish Congress will
overrule him.”
