The Obama administration secured vital support for the Iran deal this week, after it emerged that at least 42 senators endorsed the proposed agreement, announced in July in Vienna at a summit between Iran and world powers. The White House likely won't have to veto a congressional bill aimed against it, meaning the pact's smooth passage is now more or less a fait accompli.
That, of course, doesn't mean the rancorous debate over the rights and wrongs of the deal will end. The threat of Tehran's nuclear program has seemingly sucked up all the foreign policy oxygen in Washington in recent months and will stalk the election campaign in the months ahead, beginning with a Donald Trump-Ted Cruz rally on Wednesday in the capital.
Yet, removed from the bluster in Washington, the Middle East's most vexing challenges have little to do with Iran's capacity to build a nuclear weapon — one that a consensus of arms control experts believes will be curtailed by the current proposed agreement. Here's what is far more of a problem.
WNU Editor: The rise of the Islamic State is currently the most serious among a very serious list of crisis in the Middle East. Its primary goal is to conduct warfare to expand their caliphate, and their support is widespread. As to the Iranian nuclear deal .... that is an issue that is not going to go away.
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