White House Launches A Campaign To Push It's Iran Nuclear Deal

White House Launches Push to Sell Its Iran Nuclear Deal -- Wall Street Journal

Obama Administration Casting Agreement as Alternative to Mideast Conflict

WASHINGTON—The Obama administration is mounting an aggressive campaign to head off new congressional sanctions against Iran, arguing they would jeopardize the high-stakes deal sealed this past weekend to curb Tehran's nuclear program.

After arguing for weeks that sanctions would hurt the prospects of reaching a deal, senior administration officials are now asking lawmakers to hold off for another six months while negotiators try to achieve a long-term accord.

The administration is taking steps to burnish the agreement, casting it as the alternative to Mideast conflict. And enforcement officials, seeking to counter arguments that the interim deal signed Sunday in Geneva would erode punitive economic sanctions, publicly warned any business, bank or broker against trying to do prohibited business with Iran.

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Update: Obama takes on critics of Iran deal, praises diplomacy -- Reuters

My Comment: If I was someone who was working in the White House .... I would not be too concerned on domestic opposition to this deal. The public by and large does not care, Congressional Democrats are not going to block President Obama's diplomatic efforts, and the main stream media is not going to be too overly critical and/or analytical on White House efforts to push this deal.

President Obama's biggest obstacle will be from America's allies in the Middle East .... who .... to put it bluntly .... are now reassessing their relations with the U.S. and will .... probably .... start to cultivate other relationships and alliances. This is a huge body blow to decades of U.S. relations with Israel - Saudi Arabia - Jordan - Egypt - Gulf states - etc. .... and the consequences of what the U.S. has done will only be better understood in the months and years to come.