“This agreement is not against any country and our cooperation and consultations to settle the regional problems, including fight against terrorism, humanitarian aids, and materialization of nations’ demands can prove it”, Rouhani said.
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President Obama has been working to get Democrats to sign off on the deal since it was announced on
July 14.
“In the real world, this is a deal that gets the job done”, Obama said in a conference call with supporters. “That being said, it is by far the best viable option before us”.
The deal would theoretically curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for relief from hefty economic sanctions.
Referring to certain concerns about inspections under the JCPOA, the president said there is no reason to worry at all as what Iran has agreed to under the JCPOA is nothing extraordinary.
“The ultimate question for Congress to seriously debate and deliberate on is whether or not this agreement pulls us enough back from the nuclear threshold as to justify, in effect, giving them legitimacy as a nuclear-threshold state”, Fortenberry tells Kevin Thomas, host of Drive Time Lincoln on Nebraska Radio Network affiliate KLIN. He said the opposite side had said it was pursuing an objective of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Increasing the current sanctions would not longer be effective, in his view, since other major world powers are now in favor of the deal and unlikely to join in an effort to enhance sanctions.
However, the Vienna agreement might only ease, not end, the tensions in the Middle East, because they are the result of multiple factors, including major powers’ military intervention and bloody sectarian conflicts.
Opponents have hoped to use the August congressional recess to pick apart the deal.
Moulton doesn’t have any town hall meetings on his schedule, but he is likely to hear from opponents.
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In the summer of 1988, one month after Ruhollah Khomeini was forced to accept a cease-fire in his eight-year war with Iraq, the Iranian regime’s fundamentalist ruler ordered a mass execution of all political prisoners affiliated with the main opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI (Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK).
