Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, told supporters on Saturday that US policies in the region were “180 degrees” opposed to Iran’s and his country would continue to back its allies in Arab states.
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Moniz said in interviews the 24-day standard was consistent with his remarks from April.
Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, who has yet to say whether he will support the deal, did praise it for rolling back Iran’s nuclear program but anxious about what would happen when it expires in 15 years.
Jubeir added that any agreement should guarantee Iran’s inability to get nuclear weapons and allow inspection of “all locations including the military locations”.
While environmental sampling can detect traces of nuclear fuel from a large plant, a smaller facility can be moved overnight and cleaned up sufficiently in two weeks to make detection impossible, Olli Heinonen, a former deputy director at the global Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said at a briefing this week at the Capitol.
Since the deal was finalized on July 14, White House officials have blitzed the Jewish community with phone calls and pro-deal talking points. After Wednesday’s closed-door sessions with members, the first public hearing on the Iran agreement is slated for Thursday.
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., blasted Secretary of State John Kerry for the nuclear deal brokered with Iran, asserting the United States’ top diplomat was “fleeced” by the Muslim nation.
Despite Tennessee, and most other Southern states, trending Republican in recent presidential elections, Carter said he still thinks the right Democrat can win in the South. Southwest Missourians have, for quite some time now, reached out and let me know of their concerns about a nuclear Iran.
Global monitors will supervise the process, which in exchange will ease an embargo that has crippled Iran’s economy. Dick Durbin of Illinois, Dianne Feinstein of California and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico have announced support for the plan.
And he said that because of the additional inspections required under the agreement being reviewed by Congress, there would be more information about the best way to target military weapons to destroy Iranian nuclear weapons capabilities. Given the grave consequences of this nuclear agreement, I have joined as a cosponsor of Congressman Roskam’s Disapproval Resolution.
But Republicans rejected the notion that the only choice before the Senate was to accept the agreement or go to war.
Kerry said that when the negotiations began, experts calculated that it would take Iran only two to three months to produce enough material for a bomb. John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 GOP senator.
The deal would see Iran’s oil exports gradually resume and billions of dollars in frozen assets unblocked. “It’s simply unacceptable for the President to be misrepresenting what the options are to Congress and the American people“.
“We will have squandered the best chance we have to solve this problem through peaceful means”, he said.
Rubio told Kerry he did not fault him for trying to engage in diplomacy with Tehran, but said, “I do fault the president for striking a awful deal with Iran”.
Senator Ben Cardin, the highest Democrat on the committee, stated he has not but determined how he would vote however that he felt that “our negotiators obtained an awful lot”.
Democrats and allied independents control 46 seats in the Senate.
“Awesome job!” one of them shouted.
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Under an agreement reached in May, Congress has 60 days to review the 159-page agreement.
