US to be isolated with potential new Iran bans: Analyst

Press TV has conducted an interview with Brian Becker, a member of the ANSWER Coalition, and Fredrick Peterson, a senior congressional defense adviser, about the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s recent efforts for the imposition of new sanctions against Iran.

Becker says the United States would be the “laughing stock” of the world and completely “isolated” if it sabotages the nuclear agreement with Iran by imposing new sanctions on the country.

He says the United States would be in “non-compliance” with international law if the sanctions were imposed, adding that it would be repudiated by the other signatories to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 – which includes the US.

“The economic sanctions internationally will not be re-imposed because those [other P5+1] countries will not accept the United States government backtracking and destroying and sabotaging its own agreements,” he said.

The analyst goes on to say that if a Republican took office as US president and nullified the agreement, it would be a “suicidal act” from the point of view of US foreign policy.

Peterson, for his part, believes Iran’s nuclear agreement requires the “input, participation and authority” of the US Congress behind it; he says the problem could have been solved from the very beginning if US President Barack Obama had gone the “constitutional route.”

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