US Jewish New Yorker will vote in favor of Iran nuclear agreement

A draft document exclusively obtained by Fox News supports reports that Iran would play a major role in inspections at its controversial Parchin nuclear site, by providing United Nations inspectors with crucial materials.

In his letter to Nadler, first reported by the New York Times, Obama said it was his “steadfast conviction that a nuclear-armed Iran would present a profound security threat to us and to our partners, particularly Israel“.

The agreement, in which the United States and five other world powers offered Iran sanctions relief in exchange for scaling back its nuclear program, “for all its flaws, gives us the best chance of stopping Iran from developing a nuclear weapon”, Nadler wrote.

With majority Republicans unanimously opposed, Obama needs 34 Senate Democrats to sustain his veto of a resolution disapproving the deal.

Since the nuclear agreement was finalized in early July, there has been a steady stream of false claims meant to undermine support for it. One week, for example, there was speculation that after 10 years, Iran could restart its weapons program.

Under this deal, Iran will not have to dismantle any of its nuclear facilities, but it will gain access to ballistic missile technology and receive tens of billions of dollars from newly unsanctioned oil sales.

“I have been very open about my concerns over the Iran nuclear deal … as have many of my colleagues”, Nadler said in a statement issued Friday.

(CNN)President Barack Obama is continuing his August outreach on the Iran nuclear deal ahead of a scheduled September vote in Washington, penning an op-ed that ran in newspapers across the country plugging the deal. He says agreements with Iran on clearing up the nuclear arms allegations “are confidential and I have a legal obligation not to make them public – the same obligation I have for hundreds of such arrangements made with other IAEA member states”. Only 12 House Democrats have said they are against it while two Democratic senators – Schumer and Bob Menendez of New Jersey – have said they will oppose the deal. Accordingly, I will support the agreement and vote against a Resolution of Disapproval.

“Such statements misrepresent the way in which we will undertake this important verification work”, global Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano said. We do so recognizing and respecting all the sensible, thoughtful people who support it. And we state our opposition fully aware that being against the deal isn’t an end in itself.

The “Parchin truthers” include Trita Parsi, who heads the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC), a group often described as a pro-regime lobby. With Nadler, at least 54 of the chamber’s Democrats support the agreement, while the rest have yet to announce their position. “Why should Iran be trusted to carry out its own nuclear inspections at a military site it tried to hide from the world?” And, why isn’t Israel comfortable with this deal since it should save Israel from concern about being obliterated by its arch self-declared enemy, Iran? The idea of the fox guarding the henhouse lit up social media, and opponents of the larger nuclear agreement demanded that Congress reject the deal.