Israel increases security for US envoy after death threats over Iran deal

Tester said he read the agreement, consulted with more than 20 experts and gathered input from Montanans before deciding to support it.

This isn’t a political party or a defecting senator Obama or his supporters can demonize, this is an American veteran. “Now he’s playing to hold one-third”. He said Netanyahu was to blame for the deteriorating relationship between the two countries. He cited the French oil company Total as one that would suffer if it dealt with Iran, because then it would be locked out from the U.S. market. That resolution is expected to pass. Obama is poised to veto such a measure, and would need 34 votes in the 100-seat Senate to block the override of that veto and preserve the Iran agreement.

The White House’s behavior is especially disappointing given the way the negotiations unfolded.

Congress has until September 17 to endorse or reject the agreement that was reached in July between Tehran and the UN Security Council’s five permanent members – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the U.S. – plus Germany.

Franken, echoing the Obama Administration, argues that that “agreement’s verification provisions are extremely strong”, saying that, “In order to make a nuclear weapon in the next 15 years, Iran would have to reconstruct every individual piece of the chain”. While Tester and Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., support the deal, Sen. Obama’s first chief of staff is an influential Jewish politician nationally.

Co-op City’s Congressman, who represents a local constituency that is counted among Obama’s most reliable strongholds, stressed, “The main part (about the agreement) that I find most objectionable is you look at Iran’s behavior these past years when they had no money and they were still a leading sponsor of worldwide terrorism“.

“The airwaves have been exclusively dominated by the neocon and the Jewish Zionist lobby against the Iran deal and this has not gone unnoticed by the Democratic senators in the United States Senate”, he stated.

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks about the Iran deal, August 11, 2015 in New York City. “But my feeling is that this is not the issue that has to be on the table, but the day after”.

They’re ready to say, “we’re the ones paying the price for your sanctions“.

“When it comes down to it, Iran has tried to kill and has successfully killed over 500 Americans in Iraq since 9/11, guys I served with, guys Sgt”.

White House officials declined comment on Flake’s decision but noted seven Democrats had come out in favor of the deal in the past week. In a statement, he detailed a number of concerns with the deal, including relieving sanctions on the Iranian government.