The push for additional sanctions against Iran in the US Congress despite the Geneva nuclear deal is aimed at serving the interests of the Israeli regime, an international lawyer tells Press TV.They [senators] will threaten and they will posture to please not the constituents, not those who have elected them and will have a chance to vote in the coming election, but their paymasters they want to please AIPAC and the Zionist regime still occupying Palestine, Franklin Lamb said in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday
Lamb noted that the Geneva nuclear deal clinched between Iran and six world powers proves that Israels unfounded claims about Irans nuclear energy program were false.
The Zionists cooked up this whole issue about nuclear weapons, he added.
Fifty-nine of 100 US Senators have signed on to a bill that would exert more pressure on Iran over its civilian nuclear activities. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has reportedly been working to convince more senators to back the measure.
The bill proposes boycotting Iranian oil exports within a year and the blacklisting of Iran's mining, engineering and construction industries.
US President Barack Obama said in a statement on Sunday that he would veto any legislation enacting new sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
On Sunday, Iran and the six world powers -- the US, France, Britain, Russia, China, and Germany -- agreed to implement the interim nuclear deal, which the two sides struck in the Swiss city of Geneva on November 24, 2013, from January 20.
Under the Geneva deal, the six countries undertook to provide Iran with some sanctions relief in exchange for Iran agreeing to limit certain aspects of its nuclear activities during a six-month period. It was also agreed that no nuclear-related sanctions would be imposed on Iran within the same timeframe.
Iran has warned that fresh US sanctions against the Islamic Republic will end the nuclear talks.
By Press TV
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