Obama to allow US Congress to vote on Iran deal

US President Barack Obama says he will sign a bipartisan compromise legislation following an amendment on a proposal by a Senate committee.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday that Obama was not “particularly thrilled” by a new proposal put together by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, consisting of Republican and Democrat members, Los Angeles Times reported.

“What we have made clear to Democrats and Republicans in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is that the president would be willing to sign the proposed compromise that is working its way through the committee today,” Earnest told reporters.

According to the new proposal, reached between the committee’s Republican chairman, Senator Bob Corker and Senator Benjamin L. Cardin, a democrat, the review period for a nuclear deal with Tehran would be shortened to 52 days from the original 60. The revised version also eases some other objections the Obama administration had raised.

The revised provisions “would be the kind of compromise the president is willing to sign,” Earnest said.

Iran and the P5+1 group – the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany – reached a landmark understanding over Tehran’s nuclear program in Switzerland on April 2. The two sides will now work to draft a final accord by the end of June.

The Obama administration has been engaged in efforts to prevent the Republican-weighted Congress from measures against a deal with Tehran.

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