Kerry continues job as chief salesman of Iran deal

Boxer recited a list of nations around the world that back the deal and said her Republican colleagues were being disrespectful. Everything that we have prevented will then start taking place, and all the voluntary rollbacks of their program will be undone, Kerry told the lawmakers.

Later on Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz were scheduled to hold classified briefings for lawmakers in the U.S. Capitol.

Kerry said the Iran deal carried the “real potential” for change in the Middle East but acknowledged it “does not end the possibility of a confrontation with Iran“.

Even most of Mr Kerry’s Democratic Party colleagues said they were undecided following the briefings.

Separately, speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations on Friday, Kerry said Israel’s isolation would increase internationally should Congress reject the deal.

“I’ve heard people say, ‘Why don’t you just ratchet up the sanctions?'” he said.

Anyone who believes this is a good deal really joins the ranks of the most naive people on the face of the Earth. Sen.

Turkish warplanes pounded Islamic State targets in Syria for the first time on Friday, and officials in Washington have said Turkey has agreed to let U.S. jets launch air strikes from a base near the Syrian border.

Flake added that despite assurances from the Obama administration that Congress would be able to impose new sanctions on Iranian non-nuclear activity, “when you read the plain text, it seems to indicate it would” violate the agreement.

Top Republicans are threatening to stop the deal. “I believe that you have crossed a new threshold in U.S. foreign policy where now it is the policy of the United States to enable a state-sponsor of terror to obtain an industrialized nuclear development program that has, as we know, only one real need”. “This deal is going to give tens of billions of dollars – at a minimum – without doing anything to rein in their support for terror or their support for America’s enemies”.

As mentioned by Fischer, Kerry took about a dozen questions from senators. The administration is facing unified Republican opposition and doubts among a few Democrats.

Secretary of State John Kerry, who brokered the deal, fought back, arguing that this deal makes the world a safer place.

He arrived to cheers from members of “Code Pink”, a small anti-war group. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., the committee’s ranking Democrat, urged senators to leave their emotions out of the debate over the nuclear agreement, something that Sen.

“I sure have, Secretary Kerry”, Rubio interrupted.

The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, coauthored by Senator Corker, provides Congress 60 days to approve or disapprove of the agreement.