Cory Booker Announces Support For Iran Nuclear Deal
In a statement, Booker voiced deep reservations but concluded: “It is better to support a deeply flawed deal, for the alternative is worse”.
In addition to the 33 senators who have formally announced their support for the Iran deal, there are two senators who are leaning toward supporting it but have yet to formally announce their position – Democratic Sens.
In a news release on Thursday, Heitkamp listed several facts she says she learned through discussions with top diplomats of the countries that negotiated the deal.
“Since it looked like the administration was closing in on enough votes to sustain a presidential veto we’ve been asking people, just in fairness, ‘Let this come to a vote, ‘” said former Democratic-turned-independent Sen.
But the Pentagon chief said the military option was still on the table and, if called for, such action would be “more effective” as a result of the agreement.
Among the aspects of the nuclear agreement that Iranian lawmakers dislike, he said, is the so-called snapback, under which United Nations sanctions can be reinstated in the event of alleged violations of the terms of the agreement.
Diplomats from the United Kingdom, China, France, Germany and Russian Federation told Congress that the Iran nuclear deal is the best deal possible, according to a report from The New York Times.
President Hassan Rouhani is opposed to letting parliament vote on the deal, which he insists is an understanding with world powers and not a treaty. If sanctions are only temporarily lifted, Iran will in turn only suspend its nuclear activities rather than carry out the “fundamental measures” outlined in the deal, Khamenei said.
Iran will only see sanctions relief if it complies with the nuclear deal, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said later on September 3.
“I think the drama will be bigger in my country than in yours”, Ali Larijani said, referring to the debate among both US and Iranian lawmakers.
“How on earth could he participate in making Iran’s nuclear program kosher amid their never-ending pledge to carry out a second holocaust?”
“Allowing Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon would pose an unacceptable and grave threat to the safety of our allies, to Middle East stability, and to American security”. “Iran will have a smaller and more concentrated civil nuclear program, and the deal’s verification provisions will give us more information with which to plan”. “We saw that play out in Syria when the President ignored his own “red line” on chemical weapons usage, sending a signal to the world that our warnings have no teeth”.