Senate Republicans Praise Unlikely Party In Iran Talks: ‘Thank God For France!’
Conservative US leaders, fond of finger-pointing at France in recent years, lavished praise on Paris Sunday for blocking an agreement between Western powers and Iran over Tehran’s nuclear program.
“Vive la France!” senator John McCain, an outspoken voice on national security issues, wrote on his Twitter account.
“France had the courage to prevent a bad nuclear agreement with Iran,” he said, after the weekend announcement that no agreement had been reached between the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany, known as the P5+1.
During three days of intense negotiations in Geneva, France repeatedly voiced concerns over various points in a possible deal and its lack of guarantees, a position that had Iran calling it a negotiations spoiled sport.
“Thank God for France and thank God for push back,” said hawkish Senator Lindsey Graham on CNN’s “State of the Union” program.
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