Brian Faughnan has the gory details at TWS blog. Basically, the House Foreign Relations Committee has voted by a whopping 37-1 to appove a bill that would squeeze Iran harder and formally designate the Iran Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist organization. (The IRGC are the thugs who helped pull off the Khobar Towers bombing in 1996, murdering 19 members of the United States Air Force — see here.) The White House opposes the bill on the ground that it could undermine the State Department’s fabulously successful multi-lateral diplomatic effort that has put the mullahs on the brink of developing nuclear weapons while doing nothing to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq, arresting Americans in Iran, dispatching Hezbollah to make mayhem everywhere, etc.

Meanwhile, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton has scathed the State Department in an interview with the Jerusalem Post. A sample:

We have fiddled away four years, in which Europe tried to persuade Iran to give up voluntarily[.]… Iran in those four years mastered uranium conversion from solid to gas and now enrichment to weapons grade… We lost four years to feckless European diplomacy and our options are very limited. … The State Department has adopted the European view [on how to deal with Iran] and other voices have been sidelined[.]… [Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice] is overwhelmingly predominant on foreign policy.