Robert Menendez – have said they will vote against the deal. “I will vote no on the resolution of disapproval and urge my colleagues to do the same”.
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Most Republicans and a handful of Democrats are against the accord. Reid’s support of the deal today puts that further in doubt. While enough senators remain undecided to reach 60 votes against – only 23 of 44 have committed to backing the Iran deal so far – the steady trickle of support is dwindling that pool by the day. With some folks there is no learning curve.
The Senate’s No. 4 Democrat, Patty Murray (Wash.), has yet to announce her decision on the deal.
To override the president’s veto – which opponents are aiming to do – Republicans need every GOP member of Congress as well as 13 Democratic Senators and 44 House Democrats.
We’d like to know if Mr. Obama knew about the secret agreement between the IAEA and Iran.
August is a time marked by intense heat and summer theater, and the latest show features an unnecessary controversy over the Iran nuclear agreement.
“In return, the president agreed to give Iran hundreds of millions of dollars in sanctions relief“. (3) Iran will not be a pariah state anymore and will be more integrated into the system.
The deal is imperfect, but it establishes a framework for peaceful containment of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The so-called side deal, labeled “Separate arrangement II”, states Iran will “provide to the [International Atomic Energy Agency]” photographs & videos of locations & environmental samples, “taking in to account military concerns”.
“Such statements misrepresent the way in which we will undertake this important verification work”, he said.
But Obama scored another victory this week: Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., endorsed the deal after receiving a detailed letter from Obama.
The world has made a deal with Iran.
Christie also said he would be more confrontational with Russian Federation , over its aggression against Ukraine, and against China, for the territorial pressure Beijing is putting on U.S. allies in the South China Sea. They are not under the sway of the U.S. Congress. They will go ahead.
Ask your Congress person: Will Your Name Be on Iran’s Bomb? These nations have already signaled this to Democrats. He is one of two Democrats who have pledged not to support the deal.
Since the nuclear agreement was finalized in early July, there has been a steady stream of false claims meant to undermine support for it. One week, for example, there was speculation that after 10 years, Iran could restart its weapons program.
Section 1245 of the National Defense Authorization Act required the president to freeze assets of Iranian banks, including the Central Bank of Iran, and aimed to reduce Iranian oil revenue by imposing sanctions on foreign banks that carry out “significant financial transactions” with the central bank.
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Dr. Muqtedar Khan is associate professor at the University of Delaware.
