{"id":30292,"date":"2018-01-12T11:33:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T19:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=30292"},"modified":"2018-01-12T11:33:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T19:33:02","slug":"walking-down-the-legislative-path-to-overthrowing-the-iran-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/walking-down-the-legislative-path-to-overthrowing-the-iran-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Down the Legislative Path To Overthrowing the Iran Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> On Tuesday, there was a United States House of Representatives floor <a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2018\/roll002.xml\">vote<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/115th-congress\/house-resolution\/676\">H.Res 676<\/a>, a resolution praising recent protests in Iran and condemning the Iran government.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution includes language stating the House \u201cstands with\u201d the protestors who are termed \u201cthe people of Iran\u201d suggesting in obvious contradiction to reality that all or most people in the country are taking part in the protests or even just supporting the protests; condemning the Iran government (called a \u201cregime\u201d to make clear it is viewed as illegitimate and worthy of overthrow as were \u201cregimes\u201d in Iraq and Libya) for \u201cserious human rights abuses against the Iranian people, significant corruption, and destabilizing activities abroad;\u201d encouraging the Trump administration to aid Iran government opponents through expediting the licensing of communications technology in Iran; urging the Trump administration to use \u201ctargeted sanctions\u201d to counter Iran; and urging the Trump administration to \u201cconvene emergency sessions of the United Nations Security Council and the United Nations Human Rights Council to condemn the ongoing human rights violations perpetrated by the Iranian regime and establish a mechanism by which the Security Council can monitor such violations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In short, the resolution is another step in the process of fabricating justifications for the US attempting to overthrow a foreign nation that poses no threat to the American people. And included are justifications rooted in the \u201cdemocracy promotion\u201d and \u201chumanitarian intervention\u201d policies pursued by the Obama administration and since <a href=\"\/archives\/peace-and-prosperity\/2017\/august\/14\/five-minutes-five-issues-invading-venezuela-shona-banda-american-fear-benghazi-emails-rpi-conference\/\">embraced<\/a> in the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-Iran legislation was a staple in Congress during Obama\u2019s presidency as well. Two examples from 2013 that had overwhelming support are HR 850 that passed with just 20 \u201cno\u201d votes in the House and S.Res. 65 that the Senate unanimously approved. Ron Paul Institute Executive Director Daniel McAdams discussed those votes in articles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaulinstitute.org\/archives\/congress-alert\/2013\/august\/02\/twisted-arms-and-talking-points-behind-the-iran-sanctions-bill-debate\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaulinstitute.org\/archives\/peace-and-prosperity\/2013\/may\/22\/senate-votes-unanimously-toward-war-against-iran\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Only two House members voted against the resolution this week: Reps. Walter Jones (R-NC) and Thomas Massie (R-KY). (Jones and Massie are members of the Ron Paul Institute Advisory Board.)<\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, there was a United States House of Representatives floor vote on H.Res 676, a resolution praising recent protests in Iran and condemning the Iran government. The resolution includes language stating the House \u201cstands with\u201d the protestors who are termed \u201cthe people of Iran\u201d suggesting in obvious contradiction to reality that all or most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-30292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30294,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30292\/revisions\/30294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30292"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=30292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}