Congress recently enacted the Countering Iran's Destabilizing Activities Act of 2017, a bill that would enforce sanctions against Iran for its ballistic missile testing. Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, who was reelected in May, insisted that the sanctions violate the nuclear agreement Iran made with the Obama administration in 2015. If we don't back off the new mandates, he said in a speech Tuesday, then Iran could break the agreement "within hours."
“If America wants to go back to the experience (of imposing sanctions), Iran would certainly return in a short time — not a week or a month but within hours — to conditions more advanced than before the start of negotiations,” Rouhani told a session of parliament broadcast live on state television.
As Hot Air's Ed Morrissey notes, Iran's threat is moot. Rouhani's words only have weight if the reality is Iran ever stopped its nuclear development.
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