The deal is a good one, Obama said, arguing that it will give global inspectors the ability to monitor peaceful nuclear-energy capacity without forfeiting any options for the U.S. if Iran tries to weaponize its nuclear program. So, I’m on the phone to those countries, those embassies, those ambassadors asking them the question, ‘What will you do if the United States walks away? Politicians would then have to find enough votes to override Mr Obama. Republicans, who control the House and Senate, have been uniformly opposed to the deal. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said the president was treating the issue “like a political campaign”.
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With Israeli and American disapproval of the nuclear deal increasing each week, the president said that he “can understand why the Israeli public is suspicious and cautious about the deal”.
The letter tells the US president that the Iran deal “will advance the cause of peace and security in the Middle East and can serve as a guidepost for future nonproliferation agreements”. Indeed, in a major address to the participants in Agudath Israel’s 93rd Anniversary Dinner earlier this year, Senator Schumer pointed out that “a nuclear Iran [would be] unlike any other threat that Israel has faced”.
In an interview with German newspaper Der Spiegel, Yaalon said that the Zionist entity is not responsible for the lives of Iranian nuclear scientists.
Proof of that is the White House’s quick expression of confidence that, even with Schumer and other pro-Israel Democrats opposing, it can prevent two-thirds of both chambers of Congress from overriding a veto should Congress oppose the pact.
Obama recently argued that numerous critics of the deal are the same people that pushed for the U.S. invasion of Iraq and compared lawmakers opposed to the deal with the hardliners in Iran.
“Our power derives from the fact that since World War II, we have put together worldwide institutions that have served our interests but have also served the interests of the world“, Mr. Obama said.
The title given to the deal lacks the legal significance of worldwide agreements, said Nejatollah Ebrahimian who is a university law professor and also the spokesman of the Guardian Council, IRNA news agency reported August 9.
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The Republican-led Congress is expected to vote next month to disapprove of the agreement.
