2 US Reps. seek to make concession over Iran accord: Analyst
Two US representatives seek to make a concession to the radical political element in America over the newly-reached conclusion between Iran and the P5+1, says political activist Joe Iosbaker.
Isobaker made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday when asked about a plan by Reps. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) and Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) to unveil legislation aimed at seeking compensation for families of Americans held hostage in Iran between 1979 and 1981.
In November 1979 and in less than a year after the victory of the Islamic Revolution that toppled a US-backed monarchy, Iranian university students seized the US embassy in Tehran.
Documents found at the compound later showed that the US was using its Tehran embassy to plot to topple the new Islamic establishment of Iran.
Fifty-two American nationals from the embassy were held in Iran for 444 days until January 20, 1981.
Duffy and Connolly, through their bipartisan legislation, would use fines and penalties on US and foreign companies that violate US sanctions to compensate the former hostages and their families.
Iosbaker said “I think this is the latest development in the reaction to the nuclear deal negotiated between the US and Iran.”
“This seems to be designed to support the deal by making a concession to the rabid political element in the US that thinks Iran is a government that oppresses the US,” he added.
On July 14, Iran and the P5+1 group of countries -- the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany -- reached a conclusion on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in the Austrian capital of Vienna.
“Let’s set one thing straight, Iran is the victim of crimes committed by our government not the other way around,” Iosbaker noted.
“It’s the Iranians the deserve an apology and compensation from the US and not the other way around, ” said Iosbaker of the United National Antiwar Committee.
“Many thousands of Iranians died as a result of the US-sponsored dictatorship of the Shah (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi), the Iranians like the rest of three billion people on earth that were oppressed by European colonialism had a democratic revolution in the years following the Second World War,” he said.
“They did not want to live under the rule of a king,” he added.
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