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Friday 11 September 2015
Iran Nuclear Deal Survives
ERICA WERNER could serve only to enrich
Tehran and leave it closer
DEB RIECHMANN to building a bomb when
constraints begin to ease in
Associated Press 10 or 15 years. They prom-
ised that Thursday’s vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — would not be the Senate’s
last word, and moments
The U.S. Senate voted to after it was over Senate
Republican Majority Lead-
uphold the hard-fought er Mitch McConnell set
the stage for another next
nuclear accord with Iran week.
“No amount of saying this
on Thursday, with Demo- issue is over makes it over,”
McConnell declared, add-
crats overcoming ferocious ing that if a Republican
wins the White House next
Republican opposition and year, “I say to Iranian ob-
servers of the debate, (the
delivering President Barack deal) will be looked on
anew.”
Obama a legacy making But Democrats led by Mi-
nority Leader Harry Reid of
victory on his top foreign Nevada promised that any
further votes would have
policy priority. the same outcome “and
are just simply a waste of
A disapproval resolution time.”
“People around the world
for the agreement fell should know today’s out-
come was clear, decisive
two votes short of the 60 and final,” Reid said.
In the House, Republicans
needed to move forward had not given up on block-
ing the deal against all
as most Democratic and odds. After backtracking
on plans to vote on the dis-
independent senators approval resolution when it
began to look short of sup-
banded together against port in the Senate, House
Republicans lined up votes
it. Although House Repub- on several related mea-
sures. Late Thursday they
licans continued to pursue agreed on a party-line
245-186 vote to a measure
eleventh-hour strategies to specifying that Obama
had not properly submitted
derail the international ac- all documents related to
the accord for Congress’
cord and Senate Republi- review, and therefore a 60-
day review clock had not
cans promised a re-vote, really started.
That will be followed Friday
Thursday’s outcome all but by votes on a bill to ap-
prove the accord — which
guaranteed that the disap- is doomed to fail, but Re-
publicans want to force
proval legislation would not Democrats to go on record
in favor of the agreement
reach Obama’s desk. — and on a measure pre-
venting Obama from lifting
As a result the nuclear congressionally mandated
sanctions on Iran.
deal will move forward un- “This debate is far from
over, and frankly, it’s just
checked by Congress, an beginning,” said House
Speaker John Boehner, a
improbable win by Obama Republican. “This is a bad
deal with decades-long
in the face of unanimous consequences for the se-
curity of the American
opposition from Repub- people and our allies. q
licans who control Con-
gress, Republican candi-
dates seeking to replace
him in the Oval Office and
the state of Israel and its al-
lied lobbyists in the U.S.
Beginning next week,
Obama will be free to start
scaling back U.S. sanctions
to implement the agree-
ment negotiated by Iran,
the U.S. and five other
world powers. The accord
aims to constrain Iran’s
nuclear ambitions in ex-
change for hundreds of bil-
lions of dollars in relief from
international sanctions.
“This vote is a victory for
diplomacy, for American
national security and for
the safety and security of
the world,” the president
said in a statement. “Going
forward, we will turn to the
critical work of implement-
ing and verifying this deal
so that Iran cannot pursue
a nuclear weapon.”
Frustrated Republicans
railed against Democrats Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., and Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., answer
questions for reporters following the Senate vote on the Iran nuclear agreement on Capitol Hill in
for using a procedural vote Washington, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. Senate Democrats voted to uphold the hard-fought nuclear
accord with Iran on Thursday, overcoming ferocious GOP opposition and delivering President
to block final passage of Barack Obama a legacy-making victory on his top foreign policy priority.
the disapproval resolution, (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
and issued grim warnings
about a deal they contend
