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What is the likelihood that the US Congress will block a nuclear deal with Iran?

The Barack Obama administration begins a campaign, the purpose of which is to convince Congress and American allies in the world to accept a nuclear deal with Iran. At the same time, the US president invited the leaders of the six states of the Gulf Zone to Washington to discuss joint measures with them to counteract the expansion of Iran in this region.

Barack Obama distributed the responsibilities of maintaining a campaign: Ernst Moniz Minister Energy and Deputy National Security Assistant Benjamin Rhodes defended the position of the White House on the air of leading television channels, where they had to withstand the assertive criticism of opponents of the current nuclear deal with Iran. At the same time, Obama himself talked with the leading commentator The New York Times Thomas Friedman - the text of this conversation was published in the Sunday issue of the newspaper.

"We have a unique chance to remove the nuclear issue from the agenda of the Middle Eastern policy, which will help to stabilize the region over time," Obama said. “I always defended Israel,” the president added, “and it is deeply upset that because of the disagreements with the Prime Minister Netanyahu, it was the impression that my administration was configured against Israel. This is absolutely not so. America will certainly come to Israel if he was attacked. And I want to convey to the Israeli people the following thought: there is no more effective means To keep Iran from creating a nuclear bomb than our diplomatic initiative, and this is an immutable fact. "

According to Obama, "if the deal with Iran is torpedoed, America will be guilty, and the regime of sanctions against Iran, the key to which the unity of the international community served, will fall." "Can someone really think that this is an agreement providing for corruption of control and supported by all world powers, worse than the prospects for the new war in the Middle East?" - said the American president.

While Obama defended the correctness of the agreement with Iran, one of the most ardent opponents of this deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , convinced the Americans in his rightness-on Sunday he was invited at once by three leading American television channels. In an interview with the ABC channel, Netanyahu once again repeated his theses expressed recently in a speech in front of the American Congress:

"Both the US President and the Secretary of State believe that this is a reliable agreement. Of course, they do not want to weaken Israel. We are simply diverging in assessments. The transaction that is discussed, retains the Iran, leading the state sponsor of terror, a large -scale nuclear infrastructure, including underground facilities. This factor itself threatens to launch a rabid in the Middle East The nuclear weapon is two times: after a quick removal of sanctions, it will gain access to tens of billions of dollars that will go to finance its military machine and terrorist networks, destroying the Middle East. Not one, but many nuclear warheads. "

The White House makes it clear that it is not going to continue to spend strength on convincing Netanyahu. “The opposition by agreement with Iran was part of his successful election platform, and he would not refuse it,” Ben Rhodes said on Sunday. The point of view of opponents of the agreement was expressed in an interview with FOX TV channel Chairman of the International Committee of Senate Robert Corker :

“I am not completely clear the parameters of this framework agreement, and we heard how Foreign Minister Iran Zarif accused the Secretary of State Kerry of misleading the Americans about the content of the agreement. It is not clear what the parties agreed on, and the obligation of the legislative branch is to clarify the situation. In addition, I am highly worried about the issues related to sanctions: what is their procedure for their procedure for their procedure Cancellations of their restoration if Iran violates the agreement, overcoming the initial resistance of the White House, introduced sanctions against Iran, I am sure that the negotiations would not take place at all. It is important that America can accept it without the most thorough discussion.

On April 14, Robert Corker will make a resolution on the vote of the International Committee of the Senate, which prohibits the president to terminate or suspend the anti -Iranian sanctions until 60 days after the transaction. During this time, the Congress will study the document and then determine by voting whether to approve it or not. “We need an agreement that will withstand the test of time and will not allow Iran to create a nuclear bomb. This is impossible to achieve if the Congress remains on the side of the negotiation process,” Robert Corker emphasized.

Barack Obama threatens to impose a veto on a resolution, which the chairman of the International Committee is talking about. Are there two -thirds necessary in the Senate, that is 67 votes to overcome this veto? Corker says that today he has 65 votes. If the president gets his own and can’t be canceled, the opponents of the deal with Iran will have every opportunity to disrupt her, refusing to vote for the abolition of sanctions, which requires only a simple majority of 51 votes.