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Like a Knife Through Butter

We've been watching closely as a concurrent resolution on American policy on Iran moves its way swiftly through the House and Senate (hcon.res.362 and sres580).  You can read the full bill and check out if your member is a cosponsor here.  Some parts of the resolution are harmless, some are pandering, all of it political in an election year, but section 3 in the House version is down right dumb.  It reads:

(3) demands that the President initiate an international effort to immediately and dramatically increase the economic, political, and diplomatic pressure on Iran to verifiably suspend its nuclear enrichment activities by, inter alia, prohibiting the export to Iran of all refined petroleum products; imposing stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran; and prohibiting the international movement of all Iranian officials not involved in negotiating the suspension of Iran's nuclear program

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