Party Divide on Use of Force Resurfaces in Iran Deal Debate

Officials in the Obama administration meanwhile have said that the president could use executive authority to stop “many U.S. sanctions on Iran” if Congress moves to thwart the deal in its current iteration, reported Politico.

Defending the July 14 Vienna agreement between Iran and world powers that he helped to negotiate, Kerry deployed a new argument in a feverish battle to prevent lawmakers from killing it. Congress has until September 17 to act. Still, Bauer concedes it is an uphill battle to defeat the nuclear agreement. “However, the details we have seen thus far appear that the administration has failed to protect the world from the threat of a nuclear Iran“, concluded Jenkins.

Critics of the deal claim that Tehran can secretly continue to develop nuclear weapons but Kerry stressed that it is impossible. The regime has habitually ignored those worldwide rules and obligations, with lethal consequences; they’ve been rewarded with a lopsided global deal that legitimizes their nuclear program and guarantees hundreds of billions of dollars in sanctions relief.

I believe that the president is not a fool, but he is purposefully lying on behalf of the Islamic radical Supreme Leader of Iran, Sayyed Ali Khamenei. He emphasized the U.S. “will know if they try to break out” and secretly develop a nuclear weapon. He was speaking at a Reuters Newsmaker event held on Tuesday.

“It is reasonable to fear that, once the Europeans become entangled in lucrative economic relations with Iran, they may well be inclined not to rock the boat by voting to allow inspections”, Mr. Schumer said.

His resignation Monday thrust him into the center of the fierce battle over the Iran deal, one fueled by multi-million-dollar lobbying budgets and the 2016 presidential election campaign.

Kerry said a potential loss of U.S. financial and political clout is something that may not happen overnight.

His demand that Iran shutter its underground nuclear facility at Fordow: dropped. But with most Democrats supporting the deal, it will be tough for Republicans to muster the two-thirds majority necessary to override Mr. Obama’s veto.

In the 20 minute call Obama said that opponents of the Iran deal come from the same “array of forces that got us into the Iraq war” and that a “bunch of billionaires who happily finance super PACs” are “putting the squeeze on members of Congress”.

Secretary of State John Kerry has vigorously defended the Iran deal as the last best hope of preventing that from happening short of war.

Schumer dismissed the notion his decision to buck Obama on Iran would affect his status as the heir apparent to Reid.

“We also must begin now to make the case to the world that the danger posed by an Iranian nuclear weapon will not expire in 15 years – and remind Iran that, should it begin to take worrisome steps, such as making highly enriched uranium as that date approaches, we stand ready to intervene”, he wrote.