Obama sees chance for improved relations between US, Iran

Greater than two dozen prime US scientists, amongst them nuclear researchers and Nobel prize winners, in a letter to President Barack Obama on Saturday praised the Iran nuclear deal as main safety achievement, The New York Occasions reported.

But he doesn’t think such a relationship will take shape immediately.

The letter tells the US president that the Iran deal “will advance the reason for peace and safety within the Center East and may function a guidepost for future nonproliferation agreements”. He said the agreement reached last month by the U.S. and five other world powers to remove crippling economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program achieves that goal “better than any alternative”.

The presidential foursome, which included comedian Larry David, ‎Cyrus Walker and Robert Wolf, ‎ played Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs.

The president, wearing light pants and a golf shirt, leaned back on one leg as if to will his putt into the first hole.

September will bring congressional votes on the Iran nuclear deal that most Republicans and some Democrats oppose, along with negotiations over the federal budget and a pair of White House visits by Pope Francis and Chinese President Xi Jinping. He named Syria as an example.

In the interview which will be fully aired later on Sunday, Obama was asked if it was “appropriate of a foreign head of government to inject himself into an American affair”. The president has promised that if a resolution of disapproval is adopted, he will veto it. Then opponents of the deal must secure two-thirds of the lawmakers in both chambers to override the veto.

He was not expected to spend much, if any, time reaching out to lawmakers on the Iran nuclear deal while he is away from Washington.

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