White House launches Twitter account to defend Iran nuclear deal

Tuesday’s announcement is the latest in the White House’s all-hands-on-deck approach to pitching the nuclear deal with Iran, which awaits approval from a skeptical Congress.

“This is a bad start for a bad deal”, he said in a statement on Monday, according to The Hill.

The newly launched Twitter account is likely to see a lot of fireworks as the opposition and many allies are not in favour of the nuclear deal which is being termed as “historic” by its proponents.

Republicans appeared to reserve the heaviest criticism for the administration. But some Democrats are critical as well. Sen.

Congressional lawmakers have 60 days to evaluate the accord with Iran. Ben Cardin, sent a letter to the president asking him to postpone the vote.

The three secretaries will return to the House Foreign Affairs Committee next Tuesday.

“We are rolling out some new online tools that we’ll use to advocate for the recently announced agreement to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon”, said Earnest, reported AFP News.

So far, Twitter has not been overly kind to its new member.

“My working assumption is that Congress will pay attention to the broad-based consensus”, he added.

That 90-day window “is specifically to allow Congress ample time to conduct their review of the agreement”, Earnest said.