Senate Dems do not want Obama’s ‘defeat’ over Iran agreement
It is “no surprise” that Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) will probably vote against a nuclear agreement between Tehran and the world powers, but the New York senator is also afraid of being the reason for President Barack Obama to face a “humiliating” defeat at the end of his second term in office, Eric Draitser says.
The founder of stopimperialism.com told Press TV on Tuesday that Schumer’s proximity to “some of the powerful lobbies and interests” including Israeli ones in New York and Washington makes it unlikely for him to vote in favor of a nuclear conclusion with Iran.
The Republicans are in need of at least 13 Senate Democrats to join their campaign against the agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1 – the US, Britain, Russia, China, France, and Germany – in Vienna on July 14.
The White House would need to retain support from at least 34 Senate Democrats if Obama is supposed to veto a resolution disapproving the agreement.
“Essentially, the question is whether or not Schumer’s allegiances and alliance is with the mainstream of the Democratic Party that is behind Barack Obama, and the deal that the Obama administration has pushed, or if Schumer (seen below) is looking forward to the post-Obama period when he will need to be more closely aligned with more right-winged elements close to the Israeli lobby,” Draitser said, noting that even the Obama administration is not totally independent of such lobbies.
Backed by global powers, the nuclear agreement could face rejection by the Congress, which could give the Obama administration “a public relations black eye,” Draitser said.
“It would be a tremendous defeat and essentially a humiliation for Obama,” he noted.
On the other hand, Senate democrats, including Schumer, “don’t want to be the reason that Obama, towards the end of his second term, suffers a humiliating political defeat… So it is a political minefield for these politicians.”
In the backdrop of a row between US dominant parties, the republicans and their Israeli allies have been sparing no efforts to hamper any agreement with Tehran.
In an online address to American Jews earlier in the day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his anti-Iran remarks in an attempt to kill any accord with Tehran.
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