US Congress unlikely to override presidential veto on rejecting Iran-P5+1

The editorial noted that the president’s attacks against some Republicans was disingenuous, as he had warmly praised Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-TN) just a few months back for being “sincerely concerned about this issue”, calling him a “good and decent man”.

As members of Congress spend their August recess weighing whether to accept the Iran nuclear deal when they get back, President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have laid out a number of dark scenarios that could occur if the deal is rejected.

“Under the bipartisan Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, Congress and the American people will now have an opportunity to rigorously review this agreement and make an objective evaluation of it merits”, said the senator.

In an open letter to the Congress, more than three dozen retired generals and admirals warned that Iran would acquire a nuclear weapon in less than a year if this deal fell through.

One has to wonder whether Obama would include Schumer as a hard-liner comparable to Iranians who also shout “death to Israel” and have vowed to annihilate the Jewish state.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not directly advise lobby a Republican congressional delegation to vote against the Iran nuclear deal, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters on Thursday.

However, he said that since 2003, Iran has not pursued a weapon to the best knowledge of the U.S. and others.

While President Barack Obama and other administration officials have offered increasingly emphatic warnings about the implications of Congress rejecting the accord negotiated between Iran and six world powers, Kerry was the first to tie it to the dollar’s standing.

Washington (CNN)Republicans are likely to pick up another Democratic vote against the President’s Iran nuclear deal next week when Sen.

“I do trust the U.S. military, and our intelligence assets will be watching Iran with a hawk eye”, Tester said.

In return, economic sanctions that have been imposed on Iran will be lifted. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who is poised to become the next Senate Democratic leader, has announced his opposition.

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He said that European governments could walk away from the U.S.-led sanctions strategy against Russian Federation, that the United States and Israel would have no support for military action against Iran, if such action were necessary, and that the U.S. dollar would lose its status as the reserve currency of the world.

Voting to avoid a war at all would be a welcome change, he said. And Schumer already has $19.8 million in campaign funds for his 2016 re-election campaign, with no Republican opponent yet on the horizon.

“Every several years or so”, said Mr. Schumer, “a legislator is called upon to cast a momentous vote in which the stakes are high”.