Obama says he’s just ‘presenting facts’ on Iran deal, not lobbying

But we know that we are again at a historic crossroads, and that the United States can either appease a criminal regime – one that supports global terror, relentlessly threatens to eliminate Israel and executes more political prisoners than any other per capita – or stand firm in demanding change in its behavior.

Jan Markell, founder and director of Olive Tree Ministries, says such an agreement is similar to reports made last March that President Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli fighter jets if they attempted to attack Iran.

Alon Pinkas was in Baltimore on Friday, and you will hear in our exclusive interview, he supports the deal, but his criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Nethanyahu and lawmakers questioning the deal including Senator Cardin is far more measured.

Britain has briefed businesses on how they can capitalize on the new commercial opportunities in Iran that will now become available in wake of the lifting of severe economic sanctions and the release of assets following Iran’s landmark nuclear deal with world powers. “Those of us who believe that the nuclear agreement just signed between world powers and Iran is dangerously misguided are now compelled to criticize Israel’s best friend and ally, the government of the United States“. The influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee has also come out against the deal.

“I feel very positive about this deal…It’s a win-win situation for both nations”, said Bita Hamidi an immigration attorney in San Diego.

While President Nixon’s Republican administration furiously objected to the policy, American Jewish organizations actively supported it, though they were conflicted about taking the stance.

The deal restricts Iran from making a nuclear bomb for the next 10 years in exchange for lifted sanctions and about $150 billion.

“From any viewpoint, terrorists are terrorists and there is no difference among them”, he added. “The fact that Iran has engaged in this dialogue is a credit to Obama who, before proposing a military option, is intelligently and sensibly trying first to negotiate an arrangement that would limit Iran’s ability to build a nuclear weapon”. The sample of Jews was identified by calling households where a respondent had identified themselves as Jewish in a previous national random sample survey conducted on landline and cellular phones.

“The goal of that is to be able to have longer term guarantees as we enter a world in which cyber warfare is increasingly a concern for everybody”, Kerry then responded.