bendog
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Typically, a treaty contains some legal adverse consequence for a county pulling out, or refusing to do some action promised in the treaty. It's sort of like a contract. The Senate must consent, because the executive is not supposed to be able to bind the country to paying money or funding stuff the congress doesn't pass a bill to accomplish.the Constitution provides an exit from a treaty with Senate majority approval.
Executive agreements bear no such details.
Responsibility of proof ... Treaty of Executive Agreement?
End of conflict.
This is not a treaty because all the 5plus1 nations agree to do is to suspend economic sanctions. I don't believe Obama has signed any laws saying a sanction is imposed without his consent. I cannot imagine any potus signing that kind of law. There are still questions about the timing of suspending sanctions, what Iran has to do, who decides whether Iran is in compliance, and what happens it Iran is not. Personally, unless there's a provision of reapplying the hammer to Iran without going through all the negotations to get sanctions in the first place, then we should not be agreeing.