David Graham, ABC News: Obama Cuts a Deal With Iran, but Can He Get Congress to Agree?
Critics were quick to attack the framework announced on Thursday, and even some administration allies offered notably tepid responses.
The Obama administration managed to strike a preliminary deal with the regime in Tehran following difficult, intense negotiations, only to discover that securing the cooperation of Congress may be equally challenging.
No sooner had negotiators stepped up to a podium in Lausanne, Switzerland, to announce a framework—well, maybe just the broad outlines of a framework—for a nuclear deal with Iran than the backlash began. Republicans are blasting the deal, complaining that President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, his chief negotiator, gave far too much away to the Iranians and have created a deal that is porous, unenforceable, or simply credulous.
Update: Iran Nuclear Deal: What Congress Is Likely to Do Next -- ABC News
WNU Editor: No details of this agreement have been released .... and the talks for a final agreement have not even started ... so any immediate reaction from the U.S. Congress is not going to happen anytime soon. My expectation is that Congress is going to withhold judgement until after they have been briefed, and will give the White House a few months to hammer out an agreement. After that .... anything will then become possible.
Update #1: Republicans have started their criticism .... Obama fights to contain Republican rebellion over Iran nuclear deal (The Guardian).
Update #2: Democrats are voicing skepticism .... Top Dems voice 'great skepticism' over Iran nuclear deal (The Hill).
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