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U.S. Senate Foreign
Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker
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The United Nations
Security Council’s reluctance to sanction Iran's regime over its ballistic
missile program is drawing an angry response from a key member of the United
States Congress, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Reuters reported
Wednesday that UN Security Council diplomats don’t think the case for sanctions
is very strong because under the relevant UN resolution Iran's regime is only
“called upon” to not conduct ballistic missile tests that could deliver a
nuclear weapon – it is not forbidden from doing so.
That “directly
contradicts assurances made by the administration,” U.S. Senate Foreign
Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said in a statement
Wednesday. “As many of us feared, now it appears Iran can defy those
restrictions with impunity, fearing no pushback from the U.N. Security Council.”
Sen. Corker, like all
Senate Republicans, opposed the Iran nuclear pact, which the U.N. Security
Council approved in July by adopting U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231,
which also called on Iran's regime not to launch nuclear-capable ballistic
missiles. Since the deal was struck, Obama administration officials have
insisted that the only sanctions that would be rolled back under the deal are
those pertaining to the Iranian regime’s nuclear activity — all others would
remain in place.
