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Determined to secure support for the Iran nuclear deal, President Barack Obama is making inroads with a tough constituency – his fellow Democrats in Congress.

“I don’t think they would feel bound to hold that money, the way they’ve done in escrow away from Iran”.

“Sure I’d like a better deal – I’d like a pony, too, but it’s not realistic”, says Jeffrey Lewis, director of nonproliferation studies at the Middlebury Institute of global Studies at Monterey, Calif. “The most important thing now is to...

“I would suggest that (when) man believes that he can redefine marriage, it’s apparent that man believes he has become his own god and this is a risky place for America to be”, said Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister.

This first presidential visit to his ancestral home at the fag-end of his second term is the ultimate triumph of the “politics of symbolism” that has characterised Obama’s engagement with Africa.

What we do have is the above Instagram pic, courtesy of former Daily Show producer and friend of Jon (FoJ), Rory Albanese. “My dream was to go there and work with him for as long as possible”. “Because I have no idea how to react to that other than (say)...

“That’s why we are under instructions from the president to preserve, and indeed we are improving – and I can’t get into that here – the military option”, Carter said.

However, it contains a “snap back” mechanism that will reverse the lifting of sanctions if Tehran breaches the deal it signed last week with the P5+1 group of countries – China, France, Russia, the UK, the US and Germany.

With the adoption of the resolution here, the 15-nation body endorsed the landmark nuclear deal entered into between Iran and P5+1 nations of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, plus Germany last week. The 14-page U.N. resolution is legally binding...

The resolution allows for supply of ballistic missile technology and heavy weapons, such as tanks and attack helicopters, to Iran with Security Council approval, but the United States has pledged to veto any such requests.

In this photo taken October. 2, 2014, Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich. speaks in Livonia, Mich. Kildee says he supports President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., announced this week that he’d support the deal.

“Some of my critics back home might be suggesting I’m here to look for my birth certificate, ” he said.

To a mixture of applause and laughter, Obama described being picked up at the airport on his first visit to Kenya in the 1980s by his sister in an old VW Beetle that often broke down.

(TRNS)- A CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday found that a majority of Americans want Congress to reject the controversial nuclear agreement with Iran announced earlier this month.

Representative Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the committee, said he had “serious questions and concerns” and that input from the administration officials would be critical to the review process.