On Saturday, 29 of the nation’s top nuclear scientists and Nobel laureates, including physicist Richard L. Garwin, who helped design the world’s first hydrogen bomb, wrote to Mr. Obama in support of the agreement with Iran, calling it “an innovative agreement, with much more stringent constraints than any previously negotiated non-proliferation framework”. “Tester continues to follow President Obama with blind party ideology, putting our national security at risk and giving Iran the ability to develop a nuclear weapon”, the organization said.
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Since when does the U.S. make deals based on who wants to attack whomever, whenever?
After a three-hour discussion by the board of directors, “a majority opinion emerged and was adopted: to call on Congress to oppose the JCPOA as originally submitted, and to ask legislators to work with the Administration to produce better solutions addressing Iran’s nuclear program”, the board said in a statement released Friday.
However, as president, Obama can issue a veto – and if he does, both the House and Senate would need at least two-thirds of their members to vote in favor of overriding that veto, the Huffington Post explains.
ADL last month had expressed reservations about the sanctions relief for nuclear restrictions deal reached July 14 between Iran and six major powers.
In contrast, President Obama contends that the agreement will “permanently prohibit” Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and “cuts off all pathways” to them.
Activists said the marches, organised partly by Iranians living overseas, will be a show of solidarity with Iran against “pro-war lobbies” in the US.
The veteran diplomat appeared before an audience of reporters and finance types in New York City, making the case that Congress should ratify the treaty the US, Germany, France, Britain, Russia, and China struck with Iran. We should come together around smart policy approaches to enable this outcome and rebuild the confidence of our allies and those around the world who rightly feel uneasy about living in a Middle East in which an emboldened Iran has new resources and new standing to empower it.
He also said he was concerned about the continued threat posed by Iran.
“Iran has many pressing domestic needs for these funds”, the State Department’s response reads.
Critics of the agreement say that Iran could stall for up to 24 days on inspections and still improve its missile capability. No matter your views, you are us, and we are you. S. and its allies have agreed to lift sanctions against Iran. This agreement, I believe, is not built on trust.
Under the proposal, the loss of anytime, anywhere inspections have crumbled the ability for the United States to enforce the deal.
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Rubio says he would demand that the Cuban government carry out political and human rights reforms to maintain diplomatic relations and would return the country to the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism until it stops “helping North Korea evade global sanctions” and “harboring fugitives from American justice”.
