Carter: Successful Iran nuclear deal better than strike

I refuse to vote in favor of a deal which enables an evil state like Iran to proliferate nuclear weaponry while continuing its belligerency and perversion of religion and government.

“One of the frustrations that you’re seeing here with the Congress is, we are reading it, we’re digging into it and yet when we have questions, looking at the language, we seem to get these spin answers”, Sen.

“Iran has agreed to refrain from producing or acquiring highly enriched uranium and weapons-grade plutonium for nuclear weapons forever”, he told the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Tuesday.

But, Sullivan told Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, the agreement says Iran will treat the reimposition of sanctions as grounds to stop holding up its end of the bargain. He said he has never been more certain of a policy decision.

As the Obama administration desperately tries to sell the Iran deal to a skeptical Senate, including Democrats, U.S. officials are being accused of withholding details of the deal from Israel. Whether the congressional opponents of the agreement are primarily driven by opposition to President Obama, by support for the U.S. weapons industry, or by their perceived need to show support for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, they are playing a very unsafe game.

Kerry has said that if Congress votes down the deal, the United States would disappoint allies and isolate itself from other world leaders, while leaving Iran with a much quicker path to a nuclear bomb, as reported by Politico.

John McCain, R-Ariz., said during his opening statements. Sen.

I know this worries a lot of members in both parties.

Fresh off a Mideast tour, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the deal was only part of a strategy and the U.S. was moving “full speed ahead” to confront aggression by Iran and Daesh in the region.

The terms granting weapons inspectors to access a suspected site are so bureaucratic and cumbersome that they give Iran ample time to avoid scrutiny.

The administration is working to assuage the concerns of Shiite Iran’s Sunni rivals in the Gulf who, led by the Saudis, have questioned whether Iran can be trusted to honor the accord and how it may use its newfound clout and revenue in a region torn by sectarian conflicts.

The second problem with a “halfway option” is that the U.S. sanctions that remain in force will still restrain major European countries from doing business with Iran, creating friction between the United States and its allies. With this kind of rhetoric, how are we supposed to trust Iran to even comply with this deal? “But it came up short”.

Congress has until September 17 to weigh in on the Iran deal.

“Fifteen years from now Iran will be essentially off the hook” for compliance with the agreement, Engel said, a contention Kerry rejected.

“What I am hearing, what I am reading is giving me no greater assurance about the soundness of this agreement”, she said. As recently as last year, Iran raised strenuous objections to revelations about what it said was its “civilian nuclear program” to the media. “The choice we face is between a deal that will ensure Iran’s nuclear program is limited, rigorously scrutinized, and wholly peaceful or no deal at all“. It sought sanctions repeal as the main element of the agreement that limits its enrichment activity and subjects its nuclear sites to enhanced United Nations monitoring.