Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked a resolution disapproving the Iran nuclear deal, making the House’s Friday vote largely symbolic.
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Instead of simply voting on a resolution of disapproval which was the original plan, on Wednesday the House GOP leadership came under fire from conservatives who said that the clock for when Congress received the Iran deal from the administration has not yet started.
Gravel, a candidate in the 2008 US presidential election, made the remarks during a telephone interview with Press TV on Saturday, a day after the Republican-dominated House of Representatives rejected the historic nuclear accord overwhelmingly.
The 58-to-42 vote ensures that the resolution of disapproval of the Iran deal does not advance to the Senate floor for a yes or no vote.
Although the nuclear deal was reached after two years of negotiations with Iran by the US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China, the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vociferously opposed the agreement.
Asked about how long would the sanctions that obliged India to cut down its oil imports from Tehran would continue, Kirby said, “It wouldn’t be appropriate for us to tell India how to work their way through this, but we do believe that the architecture of the Iran deal is truly an international architecture”.
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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“. Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said the vote was “clear, decisive and final”. Since it’s an “executive agreement” rather than a treaty, it is not legally binding on the United States nor its next president. “It is laid out in the side deals between the IAEA and Iran, and the president has not yet seen those side deals”.
They say it fails to provide for spot inspections of nuclear sites or force Iran to end support for militant groups like the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. And only 26 percent of U.S. active-duty military and government employees in national security jobs surveyed by Defense One said the deal is good for the U.S.
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The House voted Thursday to adopt a resolution accusing the administration of failing to turn over all the relevant documents related to the deal, as they are required to do under rules set out in legislation passed this spring.
