Tournament: UTD | Round: 1 | Opponent: Kansas KS | Judge: Andreas
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Tournament: UTD | Round: 1 | Opponent: Kansas KS | Judge: Andreas
Congress will hold off on additional Iran sanctions now; Obama’s capital key to prevent sanctions which could collapse negotiations and cause Iranian proliferation.
Jim Lobe Iran Sanctions Bill Big Test of Israel Lobby Power December 21  http://www.lobelog.com/iran-sanctions-bill-big-test-of-israel-lobby-power/
Republicans, many of whom reflexively oppose President Barack Obama’s positions on any issue and
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would undermine American diplomacy and make peaceful resolution to this issue less possible.”\

Despite unpopularity of using Targeted Killing—Critics aren’t touching it because to do so would DESTROY obama’s agenda
HUGHES 2/6/13 White House Correspondent—The Washington Examiner Brian Hughes, Obama's base increasingly wary of drone program, http://washingtonexaminer.com/obamas-base-increasingly-wary-of-drone-program/article/2520787
The heightened focus on President Obama's targeted killings AND
An awful lot of lawmakers think the president should be able to do whatever he wants."

New sanctions destroy negotiations- causes Iran prolif and war
Kahl 12-31 Colin Kahl is an associate professor in the Security Studies Program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he teaches courses on international relations, international security, the geopolitics of the Middle East, American foreign policy, and civil and ethnic conflict. He is also a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a Washington, DC-based think tank. 12-31-2013 “The Danger of New Iran Sanctions” National Interest http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/the-danger-new-iran-sanctions-9651?page=1
The legislation defies a request by the Obama administration and ten Senate committee chairs to
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, at this critical juncture, could derail negotiations toward a peaceful solution.

Escalates - global nuclear war
Edelman, distinguished fellow – Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, ‘11
(Eric S, “The Dangers of a Nuclear Iran,” Foreign Affairs, January/February)
The reports of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States and
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would retaliate against the wrong party, potentially triggering a regional nuclear war.

Iran prolif = Extinction
Toon, chair – Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences – Colorado University, 4/19/’7
(Owen B, climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/acp-7-1973-2007.pdf)

To an increasing extent, people are congregating in the world’s great urban centers,
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should be carried out as well for the present scenarios and physical outcomes.

Most probable
James A. Russell, Senior Lecturer, National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, ‘9 (Spring) “Strategic Stability Reconsidered: Prospects for Escalation and Nuclear War in the Middle East” IFRI, Proliferation Papers, #26, http://www.ifri.org/downloads/PP26_Russell_2009.pdf 

Strategic stability in the region is thus undermined by various factors: (1)
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the peoples of the region, with substantial risk for the entire world.
Timeframe - negotiations are now or never – means the link comes before the turn, because waiting too long allows Iranian hardliners to scuttle negotiations
Haass, 9/29/13 – president of the Council on Foreign Relations (Richard, “A Diplomatic Dance Will Be No Waltz for Either Iran or America” Financial Times,
http://www.cfr.org/iran/diplomatic-dance-no-waltz-either-iran-america/p31517)

We will know soon enough. Both sides are in a hurry. The new Iranian leaders worry that time is against them. They fear that conservatives defeated in the June elections will rally, while the public will grow impatient if the sanctions-battered economy does not improve.
Americans worry Iran is using time to get closer to creating an infrastructure able to produce fissile material, weaponise it and put warheads on missiles. Israeli officials do not hide their belief that under Mr Rouhani Iran will "smile its way to the bomb".
All of which means this diplomatic dance will be no waltz. Sooner rather than later – certainly before next year is out – we should know if we will be toasting s