House Dem leader Pelosi backs Iran nuclear deal

Hassan Rouhani said Iranian negotiators came away from the talks in Vienna with “achievements beyond the nuclear” agreement and succeeded in having “aviation sanctions removed”.

House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that the deal faces stiff opposition. The Iran- backed Houthi rebels overran Yemen’s capital earlier this year and were targeted by a Saudi airstrike campaign backed by the U.S. In addition, Shiite-led Iran is the most important backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad; Saudi Arabia is committed to his removal.

“For them, you are the great Satan”, he added.

As the freshly-inked deal was put to members of the UN Security Council, a combative Mr Obama said opponents at home and overseas had offered only a path to war.

It will be the president’s first meeting with a key Arab ally since the six-nation negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program ended in a deal Tuesday.

“The notion that I am content as I celebrate with American citizens languishing in Iranian jails, Major, that’s nonsense, and you should know better”, Mr Obama told Major Garrett, White House reporter for CBS News who asked the question.

The agreement is seen as a political triumph for Obama.

TEHRAN – A deal with world powers ended a “manufactured crisis” over Iran’s nuclear program, its foreign minister said Wednesday after negotiating the accord which drew furious objections from United States lawmakers. Jubeir said the meeting would take place in Doha.

Washington was not seeking to “normalise diplomatic relations” with Iran.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has strongly opposed the deal, saying it will enable Iran to emerge from crippling economic sanctions while doing nothing to moderate Iran’s aggressive behavior around the Middle East.

Iran’s top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said a historic nuclear deal with world powers reached this week won’t change Iran’s policy towards the “arrogant” government of the United States.

The Iranian president pointed to Tehran-Ankara mutual cooperation to help restore stability in the region, and said, ‘The regional people are eyeing our cooperation and we can achieve a win-win solution in the region.’. When he announced the deal Tuesday morning, the president warned Congress that he would “veto any legislation that prevents the successful implementation of this deal”.