Samore was replaced as president by David Ibsen.
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The expected disapproval of the deal has left the White House scrambling to ensure it has the support of enough Democrats to uphold a presidential veto of the resolution Congress sends him. He was concerned about provisions for the P5+1 nations to re-impose sanctions if Iran didn’t hold up its end of the bargain. “I am honored to assume this new leadership role at this important time“.
With each scare tactic employed by those who oppose the nuclear deal with Iran, I not only become more and more furious, but equally anxious.
“Sen. Coons is paying closer attention to the calls, emails and letters the office is receiving from constituents regarding the Iran deal”, said his spokesman, Sean Coit.
The Democratic activist group MoveOn said Monday more than 23,602 of its members have joined a campaign donor strike against Schumer.
Engel, the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House, and Schumer, who seems poised to be named the Minority Leader of the U. S. Senate, are among Jewish representatives in Congress who have announced their strong opposition to the Iran deal.
Maryland’s Jewish Democratic senator remains undecided. Sen.
Franken, in his second term as senator, detailed his support in an op-ed for CNN Thursday, saying his decision came “after careful review”.
Kerry: “The United States is going to start sanctioning our allies and their banks and their businesses because we walked away from a deal and we’re going to force them to do what we want them to do even though they agreed to the deal we came to?” Obama would need either 34 senators or 146 House members to oppose an override to uphold the veto. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) last week.
And, of course, Iran would be able to move forward on its nuclear program, endangering our interests in the region – especially Israel – and making it far more likely that we will find ourselves engaged in a military conflict there.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not yet authorized talks with the United States to enhance security, not wanting to be seen even tacitly as approving of the deal. America and our allies will still fight the Iranian regime tooth and nail on their support for terrorists, their constant threats to the U.S. and Israel, and their denial of political and human rights to their own people. According to JTA, the president acknowledged the concerns that pro-Israel opponents of the deal were unfairly cast as warmongers. To humiliate and destroy Iran’s comparative moderates and empower its hard-liners? “The Iranians never made a strategic decision to give up nuclear weapons“. “I hear talking points that have been prepared”, Obama told a group of reporters in an invite-only news conference after his August. 5 speech at American University defending the deal. “And he’s using every weapon in the arsenal he’s got”, Foxman said. “Congress should reject a bad deal”.
