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Santa Clarita Congressman Garcia Signs As Co-Sponsor Of Maximum Pressure Act  Congressman Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, signed on as an original co-sponsor of the Maximum Pressure Act, Wednesday which would restore the “successful” maximum pressure strategy employed by the Trump Administration.  This bill comes at the same time as the Biden administration and congressional Democrats are planning to get rid of the current leverage on Iran and re-enter the failed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran Nuclear Deal, according to Garcia. “We must maintain maxim...

‘Private citizen’ Pompeo asserts himself as counterforce to Biden on Iran and Taiwan Bryan Lowry and Michael Wilner, The Kansas City Star © Yuri Gripas/ABACA//Yuri Gripas/TNS Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks along with members of the Republican Study Committee to introduce the Maximum Pressure Act against Iran on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 21, 2021. WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is inserting himself into some of the Biden administration’s most fraught foreign policy challenges, corralling Republicans on Capitol Hill to ...

Iran nuclear deal: Signs of progress but doubts linger The US has hinted at sanctions relief for Iran, though it conceded a conclusion to the nuclear deal talks is a long way off. Joe Biden will find stiff Republican opposition should he wish to offer Tehran respite. The US and Iran remain far apart as mediators seek some middle ground. The United States and Iran are still far apart as the pair seek a way of resurrecting the 2015 nuclear deal, a State Department official said on Wednesday. Differences persist between Washington and Tehran over how they might resume compliance with the agree...

News From Antiwar.com Original and up-to-date news Pompeo Joins House Republicans to Unveil Iran Sanctions Bill The bill would expand sanctions on Iran and block Biden from rejoining the nuclear deal Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with House Republicans in Washington on Wednesday to throw his support behind a piece of legislation that would expand sanctions on Iran and block President Biden from lifting sanctions that are already in place without congressional approval. The legislation, titled the Maximum Pressure Act, is named after the Trump administration’s “maximum pressu...

Photo credit: haramjedder.blogspot.com - Biden with NATO’s Stoltenberg By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies President Biden took office promising a new era of American international leadership and diplomacy. But with a few exceptions, he has so far allowed self-serving foreign allies, hawkish U.S. interest groups and his own imperial delusions to undermine diplomacy and stoke the fires of war.  Biden’s failure to quickly recommit to the Iran nuclear deal, or JCPOA, as Senator Sanders promised to do on his first day as president, provided a critical delay that has been used by oppon...