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Related: About this forumIran leader: We are in talks with ‘the major powers,’ not the U.S. Congress
By Karen DeYoung, Mike DeBonis, and Daniela Deane April 15 at 5:09 AM
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that Tehran was negotiating a comprehensive nuclear deal with world powers, not the U.S. Congress, and called a Senate committees vote to give Congress the power to review any potential deal a domestic U.S. matter.
The Iranian leader, speaking in a televised speech in the northern Iranian city of Rasht, also repeated earlier statements that his country will not accept any comprehensive nuclear deal with world powers unless all sanctions imposed against it are lifted.
snip*During that period, lawmakers could vote their disapproval of the agreement. Any such resolution would have to clear a relatively high bar to become law, requiring 60 votes to pass and 67, or two-thirds of the Senate, to override a presidential veto.
The compromise avoided a potentially destructive showdown between the White House and Congress, as well as a possible free-for-all of congressional action that Obama has said could derail the negotiations while they are underway. It followed extensive administration lobbying on Capitol Hill, including phone calls from Obama and a closed-door Senate meeting Tuesday morning with Kerry and other senior officials.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/iran-says-it-is-negotiating-with-world-powers-not-the-us-congress/2015/04/15/a828b2f0-e349-11e4-81ea-0649268f729e_story.html
djean111
(14,255 posts)And harmful.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)djean111
(14,255 posts)Russia, since Russia is giving Iran defense stuff?
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Democrats..it is not a good sign of things to come in 2016. Putin continues to make
game changing moves, yet I don't see that will undermine the Iran deal for Obama.
I worry more about our neocons fucking that up in the short term. Obama really
wants this deal and so does Iran, I think in the end they'll have it.