From the Liveblog of
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Sanctions would crumble without deal, says Lew
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTreasury Secretary Jacob Lew tells the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the United States’ international partners in negotiating the Iranian nuclear deal would “balk” if the US asked them to continue to impose economic sanctions without implementing the diplomatic solution reached with Tehran.
If that happened, Lew says, the US would be left with neither a nuclear deal, nor any effective sanctions.
He says it is “unrealistic to think that additional sanctions pressure would force Iran to totally capitulate.” It’s impractical to think, Lew added, that the US could marshal a global coalition of partners to impose such sanctions pressure after turning down a deal that the other world powers “believe is a good one.”
— Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
The Times of Israel Community.