The Iran Deal Will Pass (Ezekiel 17)

 
Iran’s Khamenei backs parliamentary vote on nuclear deal

September 6, 2015 Andreas Preuss

President Obama has secured enough Democratic votes in Congress to ensure his proposed deal with Iran will move forward.

In an opinion piece for The Washington Post, Cardin said that after lengthy consideration, he had concluded that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action negotiated with Iran legitimizes Iran’s nuclear program.

Parliamentary debate might also allow for increasingly fiery rhetoric from extremely conservative lawmakers in Iran, which would stoke global ire and stir anxieties in the U.S.

The deal has virtually no Republican support in either the House of Representatives or the Senate.
Earlier this week, Senator Bob Casey announced his support of the deal with a 17-page explanation and an extensive interview with Vox.

At a news conference at the Saudi Embassy, foreign minister Adel Al-Jubeir said his government endorses the Iran nuclear deal, having been assured by Obama that it will block Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon. Warner called the accord negotiated with Iran by the US, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Russian Federation and China “the best option for advancing the goal of keeping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon”.

In Iran, some parliamentarians are demanding the right to vote on the agreement rather than leave the decision to the Supreme National Security Council, whose decision would require Khamenei’s final approval. Last week he warned that if parliament votes on the deal its provisions would be legally binding.

He said that’s why a 15-member parliamentary committee is examining the deal, including its legality and the supervision and surveillance Iran will be under. He said a vote of this nature should be a vote of conscience, and not a vote of party loyalty.
 
Larijani told a briefing for invited reporters that he personally believes “this deal is a positive thing – a good thing”, but he wouldn’t predict the result when parliament votes.

“Despite its significant shortcomings, we have passed a point of no return”, Booker said in a statement.

The officials say Obama has been hesitant to follow through because the agreement implicitly refers to Gulf concerns about Iran, and the Saudis feel Washington is unwilling to make such a commitment due to its rapprochement with Iran. “We can not go back to the situation that we were in before the implementation of the agreement”.