Obama May Ignore Congress Vote on Iran Deal

“We will not remove the sanctions acting under the Joint Action Plan, until the IAEA voices satisfaction that Iran has taken all necessary steps relating to its nuclear program”. President Obama insists that the only alternative to the deal is “some form of war” with Iran. He was among Post reporters awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.

Flake pointed out that the nuclear deal is not a treaty, which has mechanisms to allow Congress to clarify issues.

Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) would be even more aggressive.

So far, the GOP only has one solid Iran detractor among Democrats in the Senate, as New York Sen.

“What I’ve asked my colleagues to do is to sit at their desks, listen to each other and treat the consideration of this agreement with the respect that it deserves”, he said.

The nuclear deal is likely to develop a momentum of its own as inspections go on and sanctions come off. It will be hard for either side to renege.

But the real world is different. But Congress seems unlikely to find the two-thirds vote needed to override Obama’s veto of the measure.

“We encourage the members of the Senate and the House of Representatives to endorse this agreement“, the 340 rabbis wrote in a letter to Congress distributed by Ameinu, a progressive charitable Jewish organization. As Lew pointed out, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Turkey made “costly sacrifices [to] curtail their purchases of Iran’s oil”.

The Iran deal is a win for Iran and a loss for the U.S.

As for the opposition in Congress, it is hard to tell how much of it stems from concern about an Iranian bomb and how much stems from reluctance of members of Congress to cross the powerful pro-Israel lobby, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee. “We can do that; we don’t need anybody’s help to do it”.

The president could suspend some U.S. sanctions. “This is a false and unsafe message that we as rabbis hope to counter with our letter to Congress”. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee will discuss the nuclear agreement with leaders in Israel this week.

That is just not true. The deal with Tehran and world powers would curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions. But “I’m really good at looking at a contract”, Trump said, and “as bad as the contract is, I will be so tough on that contract”. And you know what, you don’t want them but we do. And in light of the language used by Cleveland’s Cavaliers of Unilateralism, it was useful that he reminded Americans of the run-up to the Iraq invasion, when “those calling for war labeled themselves strong and decisive, while dismissing those who disagreed as weak – even appeasers of a malevolent adversary”.

Alongside that, Military Intelligence also presented the risks involved in the deal, among them the fear of a nuclear arms race in the region, which could include countries like Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

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“There needs to be a balance in this”, Baptist minister and television & radio talk show host said. “We’ll see”.