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Iran talks: GOP senator warns Obama of violent Congress backlash

Wednesday 25 March 2015
Iran talks: GOP senator warns Obama of violent Congress backlash

Alwaght- A US Republican senator has warned US President Barack Obama of a violent backlash from Congress if a nuclear deal with Iran goes to the United Nations for approval first.

Lindsey Graham, the long-standing Republican senator from South Carolina, said on Monday that the Senate will vote in April on legislation requiring congressional review of any possible nuclear agreement.

"I think there will be overwhelming bipartisan support for the concept that no congressional sanctions (on Iran) can be relieved permanently until we have a say through the disapproval process," Graham  said in a speech in New York to the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan group of foreign policy experts.

"I think that makes eminent sense," he said. "And it is what Congress should do with this president, or any other president."

Graham predicted the measure will pass with enough votes to override Obama's veto threat.

US Senators Graham and John McCain are arguably two of the “biggest lackeys for the Israel lobby in the entire United States Senate,” said Mark Dankof, former US Senate candidate in San Antonio, Texas.

Earlier on Monday, a bipartisan letter from the House of Representatives addressed to Obama, called for decades of constraint on Iran's nuclear energy program.

The letter, signed by 367 lawmakers, said a final comprehensive nuclear deal must be long-standing in order to allow Congress to lift anti-Iran sanctions.

The letter comes as negotiators from Iran and the P5+1– the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany – have reported progress ahead of a July 1 deadline for a comprehensive agreement over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

On Friday, the sixth day of the latest round of negotiations in the Swiss city of Lausanne, another meeting was held between Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and US Secretary of State John Kerry.

Following his talks with Kerry, Zarif said on Friday, “We made good progress over this week. We’ve done a lot of hard work, but some work remains ahead.”  On Saturday, Kerry said that "substantial progress" had been made toward a final accord.

The negotiations are set to resume this week in Switzerland.

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