NJ Senator Says He’ll Vote Against Iran Nuclear Deal

A prominent Democratic senator said on Tuesday he would oppose an agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme in a fresh sign of trouble for President Barack Obama as he seeks to secure support for the deal from lawmakers.

Charles Schumer – to announce that he will vote against the Iran nuclear agreement and to override an anticipated presidential veto. Sen.

Obama doesn’t need a congressional OK to give Iran most of the billions of dollars in relief from economic sanctions that it would get under the agreement, as long as Tehran honors its commitments to curb its nuclear program – at least for now.

For a clear, compelling case against President Obama’s disastrous Iran nuclear deal, just listen to Sen.

“A nuclear-armed Iran would pose an unacceptable threat to the security of the United States and our allies,”Donnelly said Wednesday in a statement“. “We’re basically mothballing that infrastructure for 10 years“.

The objective of the agreement, Menendez reminds us, was “to dismantle all, or significant parts, of Iran’s illicit nuclear infrastructure”.

“If you’re going to snapback, you have to snapback to something”, Menendez said forcefully at the time.

He added that the success of the deal demands the global community’s unity to ensure that the limitations on Iran’s nuclear program are enforced.

The freshman congressman came out against the deal during remarks to the Congregation Sons of Israel in Cherry Hill, echoing Menendez in insisting that “a better deal can be achieved”. Schumer, the Democrat within the party chief and also the Senate -in-waiting, may be the other notable defection that is only.

Shortly later, Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, both of Rhode Island, announced that they would support the agreement.

Mr. Menendez in his speech accused negotiators from the United States and its five negotiating partners of squandering leverage created by sanctions that have crippled the Iranian economy and said they should have walked away from the talks. “The JCPOA does present a way forward, there are real dangers to rejecting it, and it does not foreclose Iran’s ability to become a nuclear weapons threshold state”.

Speaking with reporters after the event, Senator McConnell was asked whether he was resigned to the idea that Obama was likely to have enough Democratic support to sustain the veto and go ahead with the deal.

And to top it off, 340 rabbis recently sent a letter to Congress urging them to support the Iran deal while rejecting the notion that most American Jews oppose it.

Several Republican White House hopefuls have trashed the bargain with Iran, with some like former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker vowing to tear up the deal on their first day in office.