Washington – The United States will continue to target Iran’s support for militant proxies even with a nuclear deal that lifts nuclear-related sanctions, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Wednesday.
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It will take at least six to nine months for Iran to fulfill the necessary conditions for initial sanctions relief, said Adam Szubin, the U.S. Treasury’s acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, in testimony to a U.S. Senate committee.
If Iran were to violate its commitments under a nuclear deal reached with world powers in July, U.S. sanctions could be reimposed “in a matter of days,” Szubin said.
Any violations by Iran are more likely to be incremental ones rather than major violations, but they will still require a U.S. response, Szubin told lawmakers on Wednesday.
Adam Szubin, told a Senate panel such a “small breach” would be Iran “sticking a toe across the line” to test the United States and other world powers.
“What we need to do then is obviously hit Iran in a proportionate way, show them that those breaches have consequences. Otherwise, we’re just asking for larger breaches,” he said.
Barak Hussein Obama, Aug. 20, 2012
” We cannot have a situation where chemical or biological weapons are falling into the hands of the wrong people.
We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation.
… We have communicated in no uncertain terms with every player in the region that that’s a red line for us and that there would be enormous consequences if we start seeing movement on the chemical weapons front or the use of chemical weapons. That would change my calculations significantly”.
Notice he said sanctions COULD BE reimposed, not WILL BE. LIAR.