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However, President Obama has vowed to veto the vote. More recently, he cut that in half, to between $50 and $60 billion.

As for the substance of the nuclear deal itself, the ADL stated that “serious concerns remain” on a range of key issues, including the “effectiveness” of verification on Iran’s nuclear program, Iran’s “renewed legitimacy”, and the...

Fifth, as the chief U.S. negotiator, Wendy Sherman, recently testified, to force Iran to come clean on all past nuclear activities by the Iranian military.

Alongside the July 14 settlement to curb its nuclear program in change for alleviating sanctions, Iran signed a cope with the worldwide Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to resolve excellent questions about the attainable army dimensions (PMD) of its past nuclear activities.

One of the Senate’s leading Democrats, Chuck Schumer of New York, on Thursday announced his decision to oppose the deal aimed at preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Tester said he read the agreement, consulted with more than 20 experts and gathered input from Montanans before deciding to support it.

Under the worldwide agreement reached last month, Russia, China and European Union countries will lift their sanctions on Iran as Iran accepts curbs and inspections on its nuclear program.

In July, the UN Security Council has unanimously adopted the resolution in support of the agreement on Iran’s 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.

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.

Former Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat-turned-independent who aggressively campaigned against President Barack Obama in 2008 on behalf of Republican John McCain, will lead the charge against Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran for a group opposed to the pact.

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.

“In 15 years or less, Iran is permitted to have an unlimited quantity of centrifuges of unlimited quality”, Sherman said in statement Friday “… we must force modifications of the agreement, and extensions of its nuclear restrictions, before it gets ugly”.

The director of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, came to Congress on Wednesday to try to reassure senators but said his agency could not show them the details of the documents. Second, allowing Iran to deal in conventional arms and further enhance its ballistic missile capabilities is...