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Kyl-Lieberman Amendment.
In: Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023-10-01, S. 3
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Summary: In September 2007, rising anger in the United States at the alleged role of Iran in supporting Shiite insurgents in neighboring Iraq resulted in the passage of a "sense of the Senate" resolution calling on the Bush Administration to label the Iran Revolutionary Guards Group (IRGC) as a terrorist organization. Doing so would have marked the first time an official part of a country's armed forces was officially designated a terrorist organization. The Senate vote was 76-22, keeping strong Republican support and a divided Democratic caucus. The amendment passed amid allegations that the government of Iran was actively supporting Iraqi militias attacking US troops. A month after the amendment passed, the Bush administration effectively rendered it moot by designating only one branch of the IRGC, the Quds Force, as a terrorist organization. Nevertheless, the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment became an issue in the ensuing competition for the Democratic presidential nomination between Hillary Clinton (voted aye) and Barack Obama (opposed the nomination, although he did not cast a vote in the Senate), mainly over the question of whether the administration could have used the amendment as a legal backing for an attack on Iran.
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Kyl-Lieberman Amendment.
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Zeitschrift: | Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023-10-01, S. 3 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2023 |
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