Democrats voted 53-44 to block a measure preventing the Obama administration from lifting sanctions against Iran unless the country recognizes Israel as a state and releases American hostages.
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The nuclear deal among other things will hand an estimated $140 billion dollars in sanctions relief and unfrozen assets to Iran, open its markets, accelerates its regional dominance and ultimately does not guarantee water tight assurances of non-nuclear Iran.
That would be Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former secretary of state and leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Gallagher said the Vatican hopes that full implementation of the accord “will ensure the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program” and “will be a definitive step toward greater stability and security in the region”.
US President Barack Obama, he said, “is going to win the short-term battle” in Congress. “But we’ve won the argument with the American people”. Applied to the Iran deal, the filibuster betrays the Senate’s 98-1 vote to enact the Corker-Cardin review deal in the first place. Jeff Flake, an opponent of the deal who nevertheless said the leader’s tactic of repeated failed procedural votes was “misguided”. “Instead, we’re providing a pathway for Iran to develop a nuclear weapon”.
The charade that was the U.S. Senate’s vote last week on the Iran nuclear agreement continued Tuesday when Democrats again blocked a resolution to reject the controversial pact. Former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., stipulated the same conditions as Fiorina, which would effectively kill the deal. He explained to National Journal: “I think accountability is really important”.
In midsummer, he alleged that there was a secret side deal between the worldwide Atomic Energy Agency and Iran detailing how Iran’s nuclear facilities would be inspected. The demonstration of US impotence has been a long-term goal of its public diplomacy. Emanuele Ottolenghi, a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, has warned that by the time nuclear restrictions expire, “Iran will have reduced its knowledge gap with Western nuclear scientists to such an extent that if its leaders decide to dash to a weapon, their success will owe in no small part to Western assistance”.
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“Why is that not, as Governor Kasich says, playing to the crowd and an example of you being inexperienced?” Mitch McConnell would have done better to restrict the amendment to the fate of United States hostages, whose disregard in these talks is indefensible.
