{"id":89554,"date":"2025-09-08T06:47:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=89554"},"modified":"2025-09-08T06:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:47:55","slug":"senator-kennedy-grateful-for-snapback-sanctions-on-iran-says-they-must-be-enforced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/senator-kennedy-grateful-for-snapback-sanctions-on-iran-says-they-must-be-enforced\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Kennedy grateful for snapback sanctions on Iran, says they must be enforced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By MIKE WAGENHEIM<\/p>\n<p>(JNS.org<span class=\"light-weight-content\">) \u2013&nbsp;<\/span>Senator John Kennedy thanked the United Kingdom, France and Germany for reintroducing sanctions against Iran last week but said that \u201cwe need to talk about the rest of the story.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_89555\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John_Kennedy_official_portrait_115th_Congress_cropped-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89555\" class=\"wp-image-89555 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John_Kennedy_official_portrait_115th_Congress_cropped-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John_Kennedy_official_portrait_115th_Congress_cropped-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John_Kennedy_official_portrait_115th_Congress_cropped-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John_Kennedy_official_portrait_115th_Congress_cropped-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John_Kennedy_official_portrait_115th_Congress_cropped-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John_Kennedy_official_portrait_115th_Congress_cropped-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John_Kennedy_official_portrait_115th_Congress_cropped-scaled.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 240px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 240\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89555\" class=\"wp-image-89555 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John_Kennedy_official_portrait_115th_Congress_cropped-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John_Kennedy_official_portrait_115th_Congress_cropped-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John_Kennedy_official_portrait_115th_Congress_cropped-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John_Kennedy_official_portrait_115th_Congress_cropped-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John_Kennedy_official_portrait_115th_Congress_cropped-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John_Kennedy_official_portrait_115th_Congress_cropped-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John_Kennedy_official_portrait_115th_Congress_cropped-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-89555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louisiana Senator John Neely Kennedy. (Official Congress portrait via Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The rest of the story, the Louisiana Republican&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy.senate.gov\/public\/press-releases?ID=B16BD300-3876-49CC-87F3-E6FB274AEC88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;on the Senate floor, is making sure that the sanctions have teeth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have still got to enforce them, and the United States needs to take the lead on doing that,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel for the Iranian people,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t feel any sympathy for the ayatollah. We are just going to have to choke him to death economically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy noted that the UK, France and Germany, known as the E3, were reinstating sanctions which were suspended under former U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s Iran deal, the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, \u201cIran said, \u2018Pinky promise, we will stop building a nuclear weapon. You remove the sanctions,\u2019\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n<p>The senator called Obama \u201cnaive\u201d in agreeing to the deal.<\/p>\n<p>But even with recent progress against the Iranian regime, Kennedy warned about becoming careless.<\/p>\n<p>Just because Washington destroyed \u201cmany of Iran\u2019s facilities to make that weapon does not mean that the issue has been resolved,\u201d he said. \u201cIran has refused to come to the table, even still, to negotiate a settlement, a new JCPOA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy prefers that Tehran negotiate. \u201cI don\u2019t expect that to happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Senator%20Kennedy%20grateful%20for%20snapback%20sanctions%20on%20Iran%2C%20says%20they%20must%20be%20enforced\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,24,25],"tags":[8790,8795,3993,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89556,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89554\/revisions\/89556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}