Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell conceded Tuesday that he simply does not have the votes needed to override the president’s Iran nuclear said-obama-used-something-that-immediately-turned-heads/” class=”local_link” target=”_blank”>deal.
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Another well-known Senate Democrat hays he will vote against the nuclear deal with Iran, making Congressional passage look even more uncertain. The senator pointed out that the deal “grants Iran permanent sanctions relief in exchange for only temporary-temporary-limitations on its nuclear program”, which lapse after ten years.
By Tuesday, 21 of the Senate’s 46 Democrats were backing the deal, according to a CQ Roll Call count, after Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono became the latest senator to support Obama.
Republicans nearly all of them fight the warranty and intend to… Republican opponents expect to prevail on that vote, but President Barack Obama has made clear he would veto their resolution.
The Obama administration has said the current version of the accord has the best chance of getting Iran’s cooperation, and that if Congress torpedoes it, it will only push Iran to go further into developing nuclear weapons.
Menendez noted that unlike the administration’s chief backers of the deal, Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden, he voted against the war in Iraq, which was an unpopular position at the time. Of the 188 Democrats in the House, 48 have already said they will support the deal while only 10 have come out in opposition to it.
Congress will vote next month on a resolution to disapprove of the agreement.
“We are deeply concerned about the tension, and the harsh rhetoric, in the discourse between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu”, the statement said.
“But my support is not, and has not, been driven by party loyalty, but rather by principled agreement“, he said. He had been the most vocal Democratic critic of Obama’s foreign policies on Ukraine, Cuba and Iran.
Meanwhile, in Moscow, the Russian and Iranian foreign ministers agreed that the nuclear deal reached July 14 in Austria would improve relations between the two countries.
“Congress should reject this deal and send it back to the president“, he wrote. Only one thing can truly guarantee Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon – the steadfast resolve of the U.S. and our allies to stop them.
Menendez stated his resistance isn’t a problem of whether he opposes or facilitates Barak that has pledged to veto a decision of disapproval.
-Democrats could block an override in the Senate with 34 votes. This issue is much greater and graver than that.
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Also Wednesday, the Associated Press reported that a related side deal between Iran and the worldwide Atomic Energy Agency would allow Iran to use its own experts to inspect a site it allegedly used to develop nuclear arms.
