The final Iran nuclear deal agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is heading this Monday to the United Nations Security Council for a scheduled rubber stamp endorsement of its terms. The resolution, which will go into effect 90 days after passage, incorporates the JCPOA as an attachment. It invokes the Security Council’s authority under the UN Charter to call upon the UN member states to support the implementation of the nuclear deal terms.
In addition to promising to veto any attempt by Congress to block the deal, the Obama administration intends to render Congress irrelevant by using the UN Security Council as an instrument for conferring on the JCPOA the status of binding international law. Six prior Security Council resolutions passed between 2006 and 2010 have required Iran to suspend its nuclear enrichment program altogether, four of which contain sanctions. They will be terminated and replaced with the loop-hole ridden JCPOA before Congress even begins to consider what the JCPOA contains.
