Speaking at the beginning of a Foreign Relations Committee meeting in which US Secretary of State John Kerry, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew were testifying, Corker said to Kerry, “Not unlike a hotel guest that leaves only with a hotel bathrobe on his back, I believe that you’ve been fleeced”.
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Sanctions alone can not be expected to halt the danger of Iran developing nuclear weapons, Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which he once chaired.
Thousands gathered in the heart of New York City on Wednesday to protest the threat of the Iran nuclear deal.
This was not the impression the Obama administration left in April, after the White House announced it had the framework for a deal with Iran.
“We will have squandered the best chance we have to solve this problem through peaceful means”, he said as Congress began a 60-day review of the deal to decide whether to support or reject it. Any other message from U.S. leaders only serves to send the wrong message to Europe, Russian Federation and China that Iran is open for business and that there will be no repercussions for reengaging this despicable regime. “For the families of Americans who are missing or detained in Iran, such as that of my constituent Robert Levinson, this deal has brought no new information regarding their loved ones’ whereabouts”.
With regard to the two documents referenced in the IAEA-Iran Road-map on PMD, the United States does not have these documents, does not have a right to demand these documents, and does not expect to receive these documents.
When all 15 members of the Security Council raised their collective hands to unanimously vote in favour of the recently-concluded nuclear agreement with Iran, they were also defying a cabal of right-wing conservative U.S. politicians who wanted the United Nations to defer its vote until the U.S. Congress makes its own decision on the pact.
Instead, argued Amos Yadlin, a retired air force general and former head of Israeli military intelligence, “there is a chance to set Iran back by many years“.
Another Democrat, Rep Jim Himes of Connecticut, said he was still studying the Iran agreement, but said Kerry and other Cabinet officials gave “a very, very strong defense of the deal” and “they are making a lot of headway”. And he says it’s impractical to think the U.S. could marshal a global coalition of partners to impose such sanctions pressure after turning down a deal that the other world powers in the negotiation “believe is a good one”.
“It will put Iran at the threshold of an entire nuclear arsenal within a decade”, he said.
“We will maintain our ironclad commitment to Israel’s qualitative military edge”, Carter said in Tel Aviv.
According to Boehner, the draft resolution with Iran threatens the security of the American people.
Emphasizing on necessity of charity and cooperation in society, Iranian president highlighted the government’s policy of increasing public involvement.
To his credit, Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, in what was possibly his last major public statement prior to his retirement, outrightly condemned the Obama administration.
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The Sunni-led kingdom has made its concerns known about the prospect of a deal with Shiite Iran, so its criticism of the new agreement is likely to come up in private meetings. Now we have an emboldened Tehran, a sense of grim determination in Israel, a perception of peril in every capital on Iran’s periphery, and an utter lack of confidence in the United States throughout the region. Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, appearing before the parliament in Tehran, claimed that the deal would not allow inspectors to visit Iranian military sites. They say Iran will do anything to support Iran’s allies in the region.
