Obama promises to keep pressure on Iran

Critics questioned some aspects of the article, which was changed by the news company repeatedly, including to indicate that the global Atomic Energy Agency staff would monitor Iranian personnel during the site inspections. The report was based on what the AP’s anonymous source claimed was an early draft of the agreement.

The president stressed that Iran still must confront painful non-nuclear sanctions even as the global community begins lifting economic penalties on Tehran, saying Iran will face crippling “snap-back” sanctions if it does not follow through on the agreement.

In their statement, the nuclear non-proliferation experts also said, “Though all of us could find ways to improve the text, we believe the JCPOA meets key non-proliferation and security objectives and see no realistic prospect for a better nuclear agreement”.

But the director general of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, defended the agreement the agency reached with Iran concerning the Parchin military site.

In the House, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), said this week that she has the votes to ensure opponents of the agreement can’t override a veto. Sens. Claire McCaskill of Missouri announced her support Thursday, and Joe Donnelly of Indiana and Ed Markey of Massachusetts announced their support Wednesday. Robert Menendez, a high-ranking Democrat who this week came out with a fiery critique of the president’s deal.

Congressional black delegation members from New York all remain undecided.

The deal with Iran, Obama wrote, “is a very good deal for the United States, for the state of Israel, and for the region as a whole … And the only ones laughing are the ayatollahs”, Cotton said. The White House has declined to detail who Obama is calling to talk about the deal.

“If this were not so risky and tragic, it would be worthy of an Onion parody”, says an official at a pro-Israel organization. They don’t compromise our safeguards requirements in any approach. The bus has left the station with most of the world on it. Its first stop was a unanimous ratification by the United Nations Security Council 15-0 (which means the U.S. has already voted Yes).

“I bring to my analysis the full weight of my responsibilities as a member of Congress, and my perspective as an American Jew who is both a Democrat and a strong supporter of Israel“, Nadler said in a statement. Obama has vowed to veto any legislation aimed at preventing the deal from materializing. It will take some new provocation, probably involving a big cheat on the nuclear program, to get any kind of global sanctions reinstated against Iran.

The army said the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad fired the rockets, “under the supervision of Iran”.

He is less inclined than most of his GOP colleagues, particularly his seat mate John McCain, to want the United States to try to play boss of the world.

U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., said he is concerned that the inspection agreement doesn’t go far enough and that Americans won’t play a role in the inspections.

Lewis stated that Jahn, who is the AP’s Austrian bureau chief, was not a “real reporter” because he did not find out how the IAEA planned to authenticate Iran’s evidence, information that the IAEA typically keeps secret.

This highly-unusual arrangement provides Iran with an opportunity to hide the extent of its past nuclear weapons activities. Wouldn’t I maybe be a little more assured if I could lift the lid on the cookie jar occasionally just to be sure the cookie consumption rate was only one per day?