Does anyone here seriously think that the same group of people who wish to keep the Iran deal in place because their financial interests are heavily invested in Iran and because their ideological proclivities dictate that course of action would actually let the President take any truly tough action against Iranian proxies, particularly the official Iran body, IRGC, since any such measure would inevitably be interpreted by Iran to be a violation of the deal? I see decertification without also backing away from JCPOA as a symbolic measure, and whatever action is taken afterwards will be largely cosmetic.
Now if the President decided to freeze all assets by all relevant officials, cut off the flow of Iranians traveling into the US for pleasure, and made Iranians into international pariahs instead of "partners" for financial investments, that might have had some effect. But that won't happen, because it's pretty clear that the new plan is there just to shut down the critics and make Congress feel useful
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