Obama confident Iran nuclear agreement will go forward
US President Barack Obama says he is confident that the nuclear agreement between Iran and the world powers will go forward despite lawmakers’ opposition in Congress.
“I am very confident that this deal will go forward,” he told ABC affiliate WJLA on Wednesday.
He once again assured that the conclusion of nuclear talks would prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
“The politics of these things today are going to be very different a year, or two years, from now when people see we’ve been able to shut off Iran’s nuclear program from advancing in a way that would pose a threat to us,” Obama said.
Congress will vote on the July accord, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, next month.
The White House is trying to gather enough support in the Senate and the House.
The president needs the support of 34 Senate Democrats to sustain a presidential veto if Congress rejects the agreement.
Most Republicans, including at least two prominent Senate Democrats, have opposed the agreement. Despite the opposition, however, political analysts do not believe there will be enough votes to override Obama’s veto of a congressional resolution against the deal.
So far, 29 Democratic senators have come out in favor of the accord.
In a phone interview with Press TV on Monday, former US Democratic senator Mike Gravel said American lawmakers would not be able to stop the agreement.
“It’s going to be approved by the United States through the president’s office and whatever the Congress does, the Congress will do. But I doubt that they’ll be able to stop the legislation and of course they won’t be able to change the situation once the sanctions have been removed,” he said.
“The treaty has been negotiated. It’s been accepted by the president’s administration, and it’s been accepted by all five... countries and that cannot be reversed by any stretch of the imagination,” he added.
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