Donnelly supports Obama’s proposed nuclear agreement despite questions on Iran

US State Department spokesman John Kirby said that until the concerns about Iran’s past activities are “adequately addressed by the IAEA, there can be no sanctions relief“.

Iran has already handed over documents linked to its previous nuclear activity, but it has also been accused of cleaning up Parchin.

“The idea that we can get a better deal by talking tough or squeezing Iran into submission with more sanctions is simply not realistic”, he wrote.

“The Iranians have made it very clear for 36 years that their intention is not only to wipe Israel off the face of the map-their words-but also to bring death to America”, he said.

Essentially, the original report claimed that Iran would conduct an investigation unto itself with the IAEA agents. They do not compromise our safeguards standards in any way.

All these federations, except New York, have issued statements opposing the Iran deal and have called on their members to lobby against the agreement.

Kirby described the confidential arrangement between Iran and the IAEA as routine with other nations.

President Obama has threatened to veto any resolution of disapproval from Congress. In order to block a presidential veto, both the Senate and House of Representatives would have to secure a two-thirds majority vote. This stems in part from the fact that Iran has refused to sign onto the Additional Protocol of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which would signify acceptance of snap inspections and potentially make the IAEA’s job easier and more effective.

“One must welcome this global innovation and outside-the-box thinking”, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, tasked by Netanyahu to speak out on the Iranian nuclear issue, said in a sarcastic reference to the report that the IAEA would not directly inspect the Parchin site. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), who defied the White House by opposing the nuclear deal with Iran.

The Associated Press did not release a statement of clarification or explanation regarding the updates of the report, which it has presented as an exclusive expose based on the agreement reached between Iran and the IAEA. That investigation is part of the overarching nuclear-limits deal.

Israeli officials are fuming over the announcement that Iran will not self-inspect its nuclear sites.

With the Capitol empty of lawmakers and staff with Congress on its annual six-week summer recess, it was hard to gauge whether the new disclosure on the side deal would affect Democratic support.

“And they’re worldwide sponsors of terrorism, and that’s all possible under the deal”.

Sitting in the pews, we have “a supporter of the deal sitting next to an opponent of the deal hearing a sermon by a rabbi who is somewhere in the middle”, Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, said Wednesday (August 19). Jeffries said that while the White House will lose votes on this latest report, it is unlikely to derail the agreement.