Cruz Vows to Rip President Obama’s Iranian Nuclear Deal ‘To Shreds’

Democrats in the US Senate blocked a last-ditch effort by Republicans on Thursday to add new conditions before President Barack Obama can waive any sanctions under the Iran nuclear deal.

Though the measure is unlikely to advance, Republicans are staging the Senate vote to make political points against Democrats and in future Senate races.

Under the Congressional Review Act, Thursday is the final day for Congress to approve a resolution stopping the nuclear deal, though some conservatives dispute that deadline. Assessment available on Iranian capacity militarily, economically and politically shows that they lack the wherewithal muscle to project significant power across the gulf. He spent the bulk of his time reading quotes from a dozen of his Democratic colleagues who support the deal but have reservations about Iran’s trustworthiness and how Iran plans to use the billions of dollars it will get when sanctions are lifted.

“The administration attempted to negotiate this deal with the singular focus of ending Iran’s nuclear program”, said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell before the vote, complaining that “myopia” led the White House to ignore the needs of Israel and the prisoners.

“If there’s anyone up here who would be bound by this catastrophic deal with Iran, they’re giving up the core responsibility of commander in chief, and as president I would never do that”.

According to an NPR roundup of the debate, which pitted 11 candidates against one another at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Iran and Israel were mentioned 32 times by candidates and moderators.

At the second GOP presidential debate, moderator Jake Tapper asked Cruz about the Ohio governor’s criticism that anyone promising to rip up the deal was “playing to a crowd” and “inexperienced”. McConnell said. “If only Democrat senators would stop blocking the American people from even having a final vote on one of the most consequential foreign policy issues of our age”. This bill is next on the table, McConnell said after the cloture vote failed.

However, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada suggested that the move was a waste of time as the nation speeds toward a potential government shutdown that McConnell has been desperate to avoid. “We’ve seen six and a half years of President Obama leading from behind”.

Sen. Marco Rubio made the claim, to feisty applause, that President Obama is “more respectful to the Ayatollah of Iran than to the prime minister of Israel“.