“This agreement presents a comprehensive set of restrictions to block Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb”. That is a fantasy.
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Without global backing, the main option to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons would be force, he said. “And this deal will bring war“, he said.
The anti-pact ad campaign appears to be rapidly becoming a case study in how to buy American opinion on an issue, and has been all the easier because numerous presidential primary candidates are parroting the ads, hoping to secure the funding from the lobbying groups and their deep pockets.
“On top of all the concessions-from ballistic missiles to conventional arms to a 24-day inspection period-we now learn that additional side deals were struck between the IAEA and Iran“, said a senior congressional source familiar with the effort to obtain further information about the deal.
The poll by Quinnipiac University in Connecticut showed registered U.S. voters, by a 57 percent to 28 percent margin, oppose the deal the United States and five other world powers finalized last month with Tehran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to rally U.S. Jews on Tuesday against the Iranian nuclear deal championed by President Barack Obama and facing review by Congress, saying it risked a catastrophic Middle East war.
But Patrick Dorton, a spokesman for Citizens for a Nuclear Free Iran, a group affiliated with the anti-deal American Israel Public Affairs Committee, made nearly the same argument, although he stressed he’s not a polling expert.
The proposed deal, which has support and opposition on both sides of the political aisle, calls for Iran to drastically reduce the number of uranium-enriching centrifuges it has, reduce its stockpiled uranium, convert one enrichment site into a research center, convert a almost built reactor to one that can’t produce plutonium for nuclear weapons and give more access to its nuclear program to the U.N.’s nuclear agency.
“I think by the time this is done, everybody will have a very fulsome view of the deal”, he said.
The vote is expected in September.
Mustafayev said that an Azerbaijani delegation’s visit to Iran is the preparation for the 10th meeting of the joint intergovernmental commission to be held in Iran.
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Following media and political criticism of Netanyahu for his policy in Gaza and the decision to speak to Congress, many Republicans jumped to his defence, highlighting that the soured relations between the US and Israel were a result of incompetence on behalf of president Obama.
