Congress Can Rewrite the Iran Deal

“We, the undersigned retired army officers, help the settlement as the simplest means at present obtainable to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons“, the declared. Newton of the Air Force.

However, he said that since 2003, Iran has not pursued a weapon to the best knowledge of the U.S. and others.

“Military action would be less effective than the deal, assuming it is fully implemented”, the letter said.

And if the deal is rejected by America, the Iranians could have a nuclear weapon within a year.

But Edwin Truman, a former US Treasury official who is now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for global Economics in Washington, said Kerry’s comment passes “the logic test” since using financial sanctions “on a sustained basis tends to provide an incentive for countries to abandon the dollar as an worldwide currency”.

That reasoning led to the much-criticized White House tactic of insisting that the only alternative to the deal is war with Iran, or some other unacceptable disaster such as the desertion of the United States by its allies or loss of its dominant economic status.

But things got a bit more interesting when the discussion turned to Chuck Schumer, the senior Democrat who recently came out in opposition to the deal.

Speaking at a Reuters Newsmaker event, Kerry said a new structure would be created to replace a UN panel of experts that has been monitoring compliance with the UN sanctions regime.

Emanuel, who served as Obama’s chief of staff during the first two years of his presidency, during which time the administration began exploring diplomatic entreaties with Iran, said that the resulting agreement met the thresholds initially envisioned.

President Obama additionally appears to incorporate Jewish Americans in his rundown of deceitful foes of the Iranian atomic arrangement, Tablet Magazine reported. “I don’t think it has any impact on the leadership race”, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois told the Hill newspaper in an interview Tuesday.

Is the president naïve or is he a liar and a bully to make such false and threatening statements to American citizens in support of his Iran deal in his hour long plea on national TV?

It is why we, along with other peace-loving nations, imposed and have maintained tough sanctions against Iran.

“There will be an increase in this notion that there ought to be a different reserve currency because the United States is misbehaving and not in fact, you know, living by the agreements that it negotiates itself”, he said. “This is a vote of conscience”.

A Monmouth University poll released Monday found that 32 percent of respondents think lawmakers should reject the deal, while 27 percent say they should approve it. Only 41 percent of Democrats and 27 percent of independents in the poll favored congressional approval. But the letter’s arguments could well sway wavering Democrats in both chambers to sustain a promised presidential veto if their GOP colleagues vote to scrap the accord.

Information for this article was contributed by Bradley Klapper, Deb Riechmann and David B. Caruso of The Associated Press and by Karen DeYoung of The Washington Post.