The US Senate voted unanimously for yet more sanctions on Iran, despite opposition by the White House. This is yet another illustration of the fact that the Obama administration has nothing to offer Iran in any negotiation. The one thing Iran would want in return for any compromise is the reduction and lifting of US sanctions, which is something the US president can't deliver since the sanctions are mostly imposed by Congress not the Executive.
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Obama with no constraint about the prospects for re-election, could speak up openly against the Congress and publicly support lifting the sanctions. He is one US president who because of still widespread grassroots support has the opportunity to distance himself from the Congress and publicly reject its imperial warmongering and servitude to Israel lobby. He does not have it in him. He is another mediocre US president with no vision and no spine.
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