Iran Sanctions Bill Big Test of Israel Lobby Power

by Jim Lobe | http://www.lobelog.com/iran-sanctions-bill-big-test-of-israel-lobby-power/#more-22579

via IPS News
This week’s introduction by a bipartisan group of 26 senators of a new sanctions bill against Iran could result in the biggest test of the political clout of the Israel lobby here in decades.
The White House, which says the bill could well derail ongoing negotiations between Iran and the U.S. and five other powers over Tehran’s nuclear programme and destroy the international coalition behind the existing sanctions regime, has already warned that it will veto the bill if it passes Congress in its present form.