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Mark Dubowitz, head of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, was skeptical about the potential for potential U.N. route when BuzzFeed News reached him on Wednesday. "Even if the Iran nuclear deal was blessed by the Security Council operating under Chapter VII of the Charter," he said, "it wouldn't ... impede the ability of any parties to the deal to reach its own judgments about compliance by other parties or conclude that the deal no longer served their interests and withdraw from it.
The U.S. also has sanctions of its own placed against Iran, some of which have waivers allowing the president to lift them temporarily but would require Congress to permanently revoke. A Security Council resolution also would not "trump the existing sanctions legislation or alter the constitutional balance between the President and the Senate relative to need to use the treaty, rather than an executive agreement, vehicle for properly effectuating the nuclear deal," Dubowitz said.
But cementing the deal with a Security Council resolution would have certain benefits, argued Jim Walsh, a researcher at MIT's Security Studies Program. "It certainly would put opponents to diplomacy in an awkward position: oppose UN required compliance by Iran so that the US can later walk away," he said in an email to BuzzFeed News.
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