Despite Nuke Deal, Anti-US Chants Erupt in Iranian Capital

Under the deal, Iran will cut by about two-thirds the number of centrifuges – which can make fuel for nuclear power stations but also the core of a nuclear bomb – from around 19,000 to just over 6,000.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is also Iran’s…

Israel and many Republicans in Congress have assailed the deal between Iran and six world powers, saying Tehran will be able to expand its support for terrorist groups once sanctions are lifted.

The chanting by several hundred hard-liners came as conservative cleric Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani was leading the Friday prayers at the Tehran University campus.

The agreement is intended to block Iran’s ability to build nuclear weapons for at least a decade, in exchange for the easing of sanctions that have hobbled its economy.

If Iran lives up to its obligations, a new president could face big obstacles in turning that campaign promise into US policy.

President Obama’s dubious nuclear deal with Iran has begun an all-out political war in Congress that will have a huge, perhaps decisive, impact in the 2016 presidential election.

“Shattering something like this with the British and the French and the Germans – that has consequences”, said Ilan Goldenberg, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and former Obama State Department official. “As Commander-in-Chief, I make no apology for keeping this country safe and secure”, he said.

Whoever would have thought back in 1979 that in 2015, Iran’s president would hail a deal with the West as a victory, and Iranians would celebrate by dancing in Tehran’s main squares late into the night?

Iran has cordial relations with its southern neighbour Oman. Does it prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in the Middle East?

“Instead of making the world less risky, this “deal” will only embolden Iran – the world’s largest sponsor of terror – by helping stabilize and legitimize its regime as it spreads even more violence and instability in the region”, House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement.

Because we refused to accept a bad deal.

Obama likes to say inspectors will have access any time, anywhere, but the Supreme Leader, who has the final say in matters of state, would never have given his blessing to a deal allowing such intrusion.

“We hope that the Iranians… will use this deal in order to improve the economic situation in Iran and to improve the lot of the Iranian people, and not use it for adventures in the region”.

To be sure, a US president with a friendly Congress could unilaterally reinstate American sanctions on Iran.

The talks involved deepening the security cooperation between the USA and GCC partners to counter Iran’s destabilisation actions, according to White House press secretary Josh Earnest.