Democratic Senator Menendez announces opposition to Iran deal

Menendez, who recently stepped down as ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations after being indicted on public corruption charges, joins Sen.

I also don’t come to this question as someone, unlike many of my Republican colleagues, who reflexively oppose everything the President proposes.

Taking a cue from the only other Senate Democrat to announce his opposition to the said-obama-used-something-that-immediately-turned-heads/” class=”local_link” target=”_blank”>deal thus far, Sen.

Lawmakers will vote in September on GOP resolutions of disapproval that would block the deal.

He said he is opposed because Iran has violated various United Nations Security Council resolutions while advancing its nuclear program and that the agreement doesn’t require Iran to dismantle its nuclear infrastructure.

“We have now abandoned our long-held policy pf preventing nuclear proliferation”, and now the U.S. has moved to simply “managing or containing it”, marking a “significant shift” in U.S. non-proliferation policy.

In the House it gets a bit more tricky, with the president needing 146 Democrats on his side. “I have raised this issue repeatedly as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and I will continue to do so until we see action”.

President Obama has “a great likelihood of success” regarding the Iran nuclear deal, reported the Huffington Post. Senator Menendez gave the speech before a friendly audience at Seton Hall University’s School of Diplomacy and global Relations. On the other hand, the next president to take office can still review the accord. And, in order to save the deal, 34 senators must vote in favor of the agreement, and Obama, as it stands, needs ten more votes.

“He is an Iran hawk”, Abdi said.

The Obama administration has been working to convince lawmakers before they return from summer recess next month to vote to support or disapprove the deal.

In his response, the Israeli prime minister used the comments as an example of why the nuclear deal with Iran creates an existential threat to the Jewish state.

Rabbi Steven Bob of Glen Ellyn, IL, who was the founder of the organization Rabbis for Obama, advanced the letter along with his brother Kenneth Bob, the national president of Ameinu, the progressive Labor Zionist organization.

Kerry, Menendez recalls, promised him Iran “will either dismantle” its Arak plutonium reactor “or we will destroy it”.

“Tehran would be the victor of this U.S. rejection because it would achieve its major objective: the lifting of most sanctions without being required to accept constraints on its nuclear program”, Lugar wrote in an opinion piece co-authored with former Louisiana Sen.

The non-partisan Arms Control Association on Tuesday said 70 nuclear non-proliferation experts issued a statement in support, calling it “a strong, long-term and verifiable agreement that will be a net-plus for worldwide nuclear non-proliferation efforts”.