Middleboro Review 2: Your Senators voted RIGHT on the Iran deal poison pill!

Monday, May 9, 2022

Your Senators voted RIGHT on the Iran deal poison pill!

Did you see? Last week, the Senate voted on a "Motion to Instruct" that threatened to undermine a potential Iran nuclear agreement.

When word got out, hundreds of other activists took action to call on senators to reject this diplomacy poison pill. Thank you for being the lifeblood of our movement for peace.

Unfortunately, the Senate voted in favor of the poison pill — 62 to 33 — a deeply troubling let-down for those of us pushing for a foreign policy that centers diplomacy over war, seeks to eliminate nuclear weapons, and frees ordinary people from collective economic punishment — key aspects of the Iran nuclear deal.

While this was not the outcome we worked for, we know it’s important to express our gratitude to the 33 senators who did the right thing by voting against this shameless effort to sabotage diplomacy with Iran.

Can you take two minutes to thank Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey for voting against the Iran deal poison pill?

We always expected the warhawks in Congress to fight tooth and nail to sabotage the Iran nuclear agreement.

It's what they did when President Obama prepared to sign the first deal in 2015, and it's part of how Trump was able to break that deal just three years later. With President Biden committed to reentering the deal, we must do everything we can to ensure that it goes through.

As we enter the fifth year of Trump's "maximum pressure" policy, millions of families in Iran continue to suffer from U.S. sanctions that deny them access to basic necessities and life-saving medical supplies. As if this wasn’t bad enough, by failing on diplomacy, our military-industrial complex cheerleaders are gearing up for yet another senseless war, one that could repeat or even exceed the tragedy of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which ruined millions of lives.

What we need right now is for the United States to abide by its international commitments and return to the Iran nuclear agreement that Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from — without delay.

Despite a majority of U.S. voters supporting a reentry into the Iran deal, some of our elected representatives are intent on sabotaging any effort at diplomacy with Iran. The White House and Congress may ultimately decide how this story ends, but we, Tony, have the power to sway their decisions by reminding them why we support peace.

Now, can you take a quick moment to write to your senators to say how grateful you are for their support for diplomacy and remind them how much their voice means to our movement?

If there’s a silver lining, it’s that last week’s vote was non-binding, meaning that if President Biden does #ReSealTheDeal, Congress will have another chance to get things right. But that’s why what happens next is SO important — and why we need you to remind your senators that we’ll have their backs if they work for peace.

Thank you for working for peace,

Eric, Faith, Sara, and the Win Without War team