Both the Senate and House will vote this fall on whether to approve or reject the agreement. But just because the deal is good for Iran does not mean it is bad for the United States. “I think it’s up to the administration to draw their conclusions”. Mr. Obama has vowed to veto it, nevertheless, and it isn’t clear Republicans can persuade sufficient Democrats to hitch their push to override that veto.
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But the Iranian nuclear deal is in many ways comparable to the Nixon-Mao rapprochement in the early 1970s, which paved the way for not only a new relationship among two powerful nations, but also transformed the domestic politics of a long-isolated revolutionary state.
In a statement obtained by Reuters, Engel said he had raised questions about his concerns about the deal during the negotiations and since the deal was announced on July 1.
“I’ve gotten some reassurance about how hard it is for them to effectively hide what we know to have been their illicit nuclear weapons developments there”, he said. “I’m not a pessimist but for the first time I see that we are alone”. Unlike the Democrats who oppose the deal, they aren’t hypocrites who support diplomacy except when it comes to Israel. They support the agreement although it is not Jewish voters that AIPAC relies on to persuade Congress to defeat the deal: it is billionaires and multimillionaires who fund Congressional campaigns.
“This has nothing to do with anybody’s identity; this is a policy difference about the Iranian nuclear program”, said Benjamin J. Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser for strategic communications.
PH: I doubt very much there is going to be war. They wouldn’t have waited until after the agreement.
Reportedly, some were even overoptimistic, going so far as anticipating that “after a month America will reopen its embassy and the good man, President Barack Obama, will visit Iran“.
Iran, he said, does not bear sole responsibility for the crises and the spread of terrorism in the Middle East, but the indiscriminate American policies towards the region.
“The claim that the deal has blocked Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb is a renewed attempt to prove the absurdity of the topic”, he said. While it may not be essential for Iran to provide a full mea culpa of its past activities, the access levels that Iran grants to the IAEA are indeed critical to our understanding of Iran’s progress toward a nuclear weapon.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (right) and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (left).
The Iran nuclear agreement, confirmed by the global Atomic Energy Agency, appears to be everything that was predicted in the Joint Plan of Action, and more.
Treasury hasn’t issued any guidance for such transactions, and isn’t likely to do so until October, Nephew said.
“For more than a decade, the Iranians had gone to great lengths to try to cover it up”, he said of the alleged weapons work at Parchin.
A senior U.S. intelligence official said the IAEA was familiar with the “sanitization efforts” and added that the Obama administration and the P5+1 world powers were confident the IAEA had the technical ability to detect past nuclear work at the site. Despite the country’s abundant reserves, Iran’s crude oil production has substantially declined, and natural gas production growth has been slower than expected over the past few years.
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The group had sent 60 activists to Schumer’s office to lobby him last week, while Citizens for a Nuclear Free Iran, an offshoot AIPAC formed to run at least $25 million in advertising against the deal, ran television spots in New York City.
