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BREAKING NEWS Senate Democrats clear way for Iran nuclear deal

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Thursday, September 10, 2015 4:08 PM EDT
Senate Democrats delivered a major victory to President Obama on Thursday when they blocked a Republican resolution to reject a six-nation nuclear accord with Iran, ensuring that the landmark deal will take effect without a veto showdown between Congress and the White House.
A procedural vote fell short of the number needed to break a Democratic filibuster. It culminated hours of debate on the Senate floor and capped months of discord since the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China announced the agreement with Iran in July.
Debate over the accord divided Democrats between their loyalties to the president and their constituents, especially Jewish ones, animated the antiwar movement on the left and exposed the waning power of the Israeli lobbying force that spent millions to prevent the accord.

Source: NYTimes

Obama: Israel is the only country opposing Iran nuclear deal

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barack-obama-10US President Barack Obama has signalled out Israel as the only country in the world to oppose Iran’s nuclear deal.

In a speech at the American University in Washington on Wednesday, Obama warned that rejecting the nuclear deal between the world’s major powers and Iran will lead to only one option, which is another war in the Middle East.

Obama further pointed out that Congress’s opposition of the deal with Iran would mean an inevitable war.

“Let’s not mince words. The choice we face is ultimately between diplomacy or some form of war. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not three months from now, but soon,” the US president stressed.

Obama outlined the ability of the deal to “hold Iran accountable if it practices deception in the nuclear file,” further stressing the necessity of such diplomatic measure and the potential benefits for the international community.

The US president described the Iranian regime as “dangerous and oppressive” and added that there might be a possibility that some of the unfrozen Iranian assets would be used to finance “terrorist activities”; but he stressed that this alone should not be a reason to pull out of the deal as even a flawed agreement is better than full-out war.