Months ago, the GOP lawmakers were pushing their plans to file a case against President Obama over Iran. However, just recently, House Republicans have crashed out the thought to sue Obama over the nuclear deal with Iran.
The House vote was very symbolic that will have no consequence of the implementation of the nuclear agreement, which reached between Iran and the P5+, the US, Britain, Russia, China, France, and Germany in mid-July. "The fact that the House voted for this, all they have shown is their political opinions, it has no validity in law and it's a disgrace," Former Democratic Senator Mike Gravel told Press TV. "It is clearly led by the AIPAC's influence on the House members and the Congress," stated Gravel, which is a candidate in the 2008 US presidential election.
In fact, the GOP lawmakers were all over the idea of dragging President Obama through the courtroom. Litigation is "an option that is very possible," former House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement in September. "We will use every tool at our disposal to stop, slow and delay this agreement from being fully implemented," he added.
But whatever the reason is, prior to the deal's implementation, the dream has been replaced by a lot of legislative efforts made to prevent the U.S. from lifting sanctions against Iran, as claimed in US Message Board. "I don't know that on the immediate horizon," mentioned Rep. Matt Salmon, who had been in the initial talks about a court battle against Obama just last year.
The prospect of the legal action was raised during the tension between Boehner and House conservatives, including Salmon, a founding member of the rabble-rousing Freedom Caucus. The Hill reported that when the Senate Democrats seemingly would side with the White House to obstruct the efforts to kill the nuclear pact, Boehner acceded to House conservatives' call for a new plan to break off the agreement.
And the decision of not to file a law case would help clarify congressional Republicans' strategy to dispose of the Iran deal. Instead of trying to use the courts to bring out the agreement completely, which could take them just months, if not years, the agreement's critics appear to be more interested in undermining it through U.S. sanctions.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration and the IAEA have maintained that the inspection terms are always kept secret and fall outside the scope of the legislation, which is giving the Congress a probability to review the agreement. Moreover, the White House had discharged the idea of a lawsuit.
