Barack Obama increases pressure on US Congress to pass Iran nuclear deal

That mindset is one that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects.

He even went so far as to compare Republican opponents to Iranian hard-liners. “It’s those hardliners chanting “Death to America” who have been most opposed to the deal”. But he said he’ll spend the August recess on remaining concerns, including Obama’s willingness to crack down on Iran’s misbehavior.

Directly referencing President Obama’s assertion that opponents of the deal were akin to warmongers, the leading lawmaker said his opposition was “not because I believe war is a viable or desirable option, nor to challenge the path of diplomacy”.

In response to this part of Obama’s speech, the senior Israeli diplomatic official said, “The president was right when he said a nuclear-armed Iran would be much more risky than an Iran that benefits from sanctions relief”. He told Newsday that the president spoke personally with him for 25 minutes last Thursday, but his view did not change.

“If Schumer does, in fact, come out against the deal, it might mean that the future Dem leader understands that Obama’s victory is secure”, tweeted The Atlantic columnist Jeffrey Goldberg.

The White House is preparing for the likelihood that lawmakers will vote against the deal next month and is focusing its lobbying efforts on getting enough Democrats to sustain a veto.

He called the dispute over the deal “the most consequential foreign policy debate” since the Iraq invasion and argued that Democrats who opposed the agreement would be siding with the architects of the Iraq war.

A window had cracked open, the US President said.

“The selection we face is finally between diplomacy and a few type of struggle”, the president stated.

Obama took on all his critics. And he jabbed at “lobbyists and pundits” for transforming themselves into “armchair nuclear scientists”.

“If Congress kills this deal, we will lose more than just constraints on Iran’s nuclear program or the sanctions we have painstakingly built”, he warned. And who exactly are these critics of the deal that are proclaiming the interim deal to be a success? Not only does it sanction Iran’s nuclear program, but by the removal of sanctions, it finances it. Obama has betrayed (yet again) an ally and endangered the entire free world.

Obama, brandishing his own record as evidence he is not weak or willing to appease, said: “I have ordered tens of thousands of young Americans into combat”.

“The president needs to retract his freakish and preposterous comments”, McConnell said in a statement.

Iran s antagonism toward the United States, Israel and support for terror groups in the Middle East since then has given many lawmakers pause, with a number of Democrats already breaking ranks. They are asking them to at least delay announcing their decision until they get back.

Obama appeared to have an uphill slog in persuading the Republican-controlled Congress not pass a resolution of disapproval, which was introduced in the House on Tuesday. John McCain, now chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

In the Senate, CBS Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett reports the margin is possibly slimmer.

“Those hardliners are most comfortable with the status quo … they are making common cause with the Republican caucus”.

His explanations failed to satisfy Corker, other Republicans and Sen.

“These Democrats and Republicans deserved critical solutions immediately, not some outrageous try and equate their seek for solutions with supporting chants of ‘dying to America, ‘” the Kentucky Republican stated.

“The single greatest beneficiary in the region of that war was the Islamic Republic of Iran, which saw its strategic positions strengthened by the removal of its longstanding enemy, Saddam Hussein”.