John Kerry warning on Iran nuclear deal rejection

The administration keep claiming it wasn’t trying to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program.

Meanwhile, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the Iran nuclear agreement would not prevent the United States from imposing additional sanctions on Iran over issues such as human rights violations if it feels it is necessary.

According to lawmakers, Kerry said the worldwide coalition behind existing economic and military sanctions will collapse no matter what Congress decides, an assessment that touched a Republican sore spot. During one line of questioning, Sen. “It isn’t a quote better deal, some sort of unicorn arrangement involving Iran’s complete capitulation.” he said.

Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) noted that U.S. allies, including Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Jordan, and New Zealand all support the Iran deal.

Senators often used their question period to forcefully share their opinions with Kerry, which shows that winning over Congress to the nuclear deal is far from a success.

Congress has until September 17th to approve or reject the deal. Republicans have called these side deals, and demanded that the content of those agreements be shared with Congress. James Risch (R-Idaho).

Kerry praised members of the negotiating team and said nobody “pulled the wool” over their eyes. We’ve ended up in a situation where the deal that’s on the table basically codifies the industrialization of their nuclear program.

“I believe it weakens the national security and it makes the world a more unsafe place”, said Senator Marco Rubio. “The choice we face is between an agreement that will ensure Iran’s nuclear program is limited, rigorously scrutinized, and wholly peaceful, or no deal at all”.

Here’s some video contrasting Secretary of State John Kerry during his Senate testimony today with – Secretary of State John Kerry.

Riyadh and its Gulf neighbours share with Israel a concern that Iran, made wealthier under the agreement, will be more able to support its regional proxies.

“In fact, the only people this deal does anything for, directly, are the Iranian officials who want to continue to jail and execute their people“.

Moniz tells the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: “This is not what Iran wanted”.

He says, “The deal is based on science and analysis”. Lawmakers can’t stop the U.S. from implementing the agreement entirely. Find out in “Showdown with Nuclear Iran”.

He says, “The deal is based on science and analysis”.

“From my perspective, Mr. Secretary, I’m sorry, but it’s not unlike a hotel guest who leaves only with a hotel bathrobe on his back”.

Kerry is testifying before a Senate committee as the Obama administration publicly defends the much-debated accord.

Testifying before Congress for the first time since world powers reached the landmark accord with Iran last week, America’s top diplomat was confronted head-on by Republican accusations that Iranian negotiators had “fleeced” and “bamboozled” him.

Kerry was welcomed to the committee chamber by about a half-dozen Code Pink anti-nuclear activists sporting bright pink “Peace with Iran” T-shirts. Bob Corker of Tennessee.

“I will be travelling to Doha in the next couple of weeks to meet with the whole [Gulf Cooperation Council]”, Kerry told the pan-Arab Al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper in an interview published on Wednesday.