John Kerry pushes importance of approving Iran nuclear deal

“And what Iran will decide to do is dig deeper because Israel does not have the ability, nor do we, to stop, unless we went to all-out war and literally annihilated Iran, which I don’t hear people talking about”. “It is a process by which we will know what they’re doing”. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said.

“Even after this deal, our policy toward the arrogant U.S. will not change”, he explained. After all, it was over a year ago when Israel had determined that they were within a year of completing it. With the agreement’s limited inspections, Iran will soon complete any tweaking that is left to be done.

The Journal also pointed out that the survey’s results reflect a divide between U.S. and Israeli Jews, most of which are opposed to the deal.

Although our arms-control deals with the Soviet Union were negotiated as treaties, and subsequently either approved or rejected by the Senate, the Obama administration chose not to negotiate the deal with Iran as a treaty.

Under the deal agreed in Vienna, U.S., EU and United Nations sanctions will be lifted in exchange for long-term curbs on Iran’s nuclear program that the West suspected was aimed at creating an atomic bomb, but which Tehran says is peaceful. These include secret letters of understanding between the U.S. and France, Germany and the United Kingdom that spell out a few of the more ambiguous parts of the agreement, and classified explanations of the Iran deal’s provisions that commit other countries to provide Iran with research and development assistance on its nuclear program.

“It not only alienates the Israelis but fails to influence positively the very constituency the secretary presumably is trying to sway: Congress”, he said. “I think there’s a lot of tools at our disposal”, he told reporters, although he did not elaborate.

Zarif further stated that contrary to Kerry’s remarks, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) clearly specified that the contents of the UN Security Council Resolution 2231 are different from those of the nuclear agreement reached between Iran and the 5+1 on July 14. In the interview, Obama said he was confident his administration had the support it needed for the deal in Congress. Congress disapproves of the Iranian nuclear deal, it’ll undermine President Barack Obama’s potential to act all through the world.

For now, though, it seems that the American public is realistic about Iran’s intentions – or at least more realistic than our secretary of state pretends to be. Overriding such a veto would require a two-thirds majority in both houses, which means dozens of Obama’s fellow Democrats would have to reject a signature achievement of their president to kill the deal, seen as an unlikely prospect. Or so Kerry warned, ruling out uniting the globe behind sanctions that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani admitted had returned his country’s economy to the “stone age”.

Perhaps the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran does not feel compelled to indulge in American fairy-tale endings.