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Thousands of people are expected to take part in dozens of marches in cities across the globe Saturday in support of Iran’s deal with world powers over its controversial nuclear programme.

Lawmakers against it, most (but not all) of whom are Republicans, have threatened to sink the deal by passing a congressional resolution of disapproval, the Huffington Post writes. In return, sanctions against the country would be relieved.

Though sanctions have brought Iran to the negotiating table, they have never thwarted Iran’s nuclear buildup.

Kerry also warned that the U.S. could lose its military standing in the world should Congress reject the deal and insist its allies concede to U.S. sanctions on Iran.

CHQ endorsed Congressman and candidate for Florida’s Republican Senate nomination to succeed Marco Rubio joined with Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton (also endorsed by CHQ) to write a powerful indictment of Obama’s nuclear weapons deal with Iran that we covered recently:...

West Texas intermediate for September delivery fell $1.07 cents, or 2.5%, to settle at $42.23 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The US contract on Tuesday closed at the lowest level since March 2009.

Caruso reported from New York.

“We, the undersigned retired army officers, help the settlement as the simplest means at present obtainable to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons“, the declared. Newton of the Air Force.

Secretary of State John Kerry doubled down on the controversial Iran nuclear deal Tuesday, telling lawmakers that there was not a better deal available to negotiators and that since 2003 Iran has not pursued a nuclear bomb to the best of America’s knowledge.

“Devaluation of the yuan means a stronger U.S. dollar and that’s likely to weigh on commodity prices“, Michael McCarthy, a chief strategist at CMC Markets in Sydney, said by phone.

The Islamist fanatics who rule Iran might actually welcome a nuclear exchange with Israel. And the alternative of not reaching an agreement, you know what it is?

Obama’s White House is fighting for the agreement – which would be a legacy achievement for the president – and has plenty of motivation to cast the alternatives as dire. The deal that Secretary of State John Kerry and the other major powers have worked out with...

President Barack Obama, in a Sunday broadcast interview, warned congressional rejection of the deal would make the central goal of keeping Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons harder to achieve. Finally, he points out it provides Iran with tens of billions of dollars it could...

The letter says the Iran deal “will advance the cause of peace and security in the Middle East and can serve as a guidepost for future nonproliferation agreements”. “But, you know, we’ve been very clear that the joint agreement that we plan that you...

But he said it would be harder to push back against a nuclear-armed Iran.