The Republican-led House of Representatives approved Friday the use of US force against Iran if the Tehran regime threatens the United States and its allies with nuclear weapons.
According to a section of the National Defense Authorization Act, “it shall be the policy of the United States to take all necessary measures, including military action if required, to prevent Iran from threatening the United States, its allies or Iran’s neighbors with a nuclear weapon.”
Lawmakers by a vote of 299-120 passed the sweeping legislation, which sets out a total of $642.5 billion in military expenditures for the coming fiscal year.
The bill including the tough Iran language came just a day after a non-binding but sharply worded House resolution put pressure on President Barack Obama to prevent Tehran from pursuing its nuclear program and reject policy merely aimed at containing a nuclear weapons-capable Iran.
Friday’s measure would make the possible use of force a key plank in US policy to prevent Iran from acquiring an atomic bomb.
The bill would still need to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate, where Obama’s allies are highly unlikely to pass the House version without substantial changes.
Obama has already threatened to veto the measure if it prevents his administration from carrying out its defense strategy.
The House legislation would require the US military to prepare a plan to boost the presence of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in the Middle East, and conduct military exercises “or other visible, concrete military readiness activities.”
Iran and the P5+1 powers — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States, plus Germany — are preparing to meet next week in Baghdad for crunch talks on Tehran’s contested nuclear program.
Western powers and Israel say Iran is masking an ambition to obtain nuclear weapons under cover of a civilian energy program, a charge Tehran vehemently denies.
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The hypocrisy and obvious blind obedience to israel is flat out treasonous. People Iran has a signed and verified international treaty (which the US is legally bound to uphold) the SPECIFICALLY GIVES IRAN THE RIGHT TO PRODUCE NUCLEAR FUEL FOR POWER PLANTS AND RESEARCH!!!. Hello people what the US is doing is flat out illegal not to mention immoral and down right crazy. The only, I repeat the only country that stands to benefit from all this war mongering is israel. You see for israel this entire debacle is a win win situation. First it has totally side tracked the phony peace process that israel has been intentionally sabotaging since 1948. Second israel has used its dual citizen traitors in Congress to approve massive no military aid packages one after another. Third it as allowed israel to use its traitors in Congress to force the American people into grossly one sided treaties with israel that only benefit israel and actually harm US military and geopolitical interests. And finally if israel can actually get the US to pay for, bleed and die for israel while destroying the remaining 2 enemies of israel’s aim to take over the Middle East then israel wins again.
People make no mistake every time israel wins the American People lose. And since israel’s false flag attack on the US on 9-11 the American People have lost thousands of lives, hundreds of thousands wounded and trillions of dollars lost. All in the name of israels illegal, immoral, and criminal imperialism. It is time to get rid of israel. Israel is no friend and ally to the American People. In fact israel has done far far greater damage to America than all the Muslims in the world put together.
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