Posted on 03/27/2015 2:02:15 PM PDT by Star Traveler
Iran hails ‘massive progress’ as Kerry-Zarif continue talks; Israeli official calls looming agreement ‘incomprehensibly’ bad.
The deal taking shape between Iran and world powers will leave Iran with 6,100 centrifuges spinning, will involve a phased lifting of economic sanctions, and will be reached as scheduled early this coming week, Israeli television reported Friday night.
Negotiators have yet to resolve several key issues, including the fate of some 13,000 centrifuges that Iran will be barred from using under the deal, whether Iran will be allowed to continue its R&D work on advanced centrifuges, and what will become of Iran’s already enriched uranium, the report on Israel’s Channel 2 news said.
What has been agreed is that Iran will be allowed to continue to operate its secretive underground facility at Fordo, the TV station’s well-connected Middle East analyst Ehud Ya’ari said. Ya’ari, who did not give a source for his information, echoed the widespread Israeli description of the emerging deal as “bad.”
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They’re not signing jack. The Senate will instantly render it invalid.
The problem is ... Obama can sign any “agreement” and enforce it within the powers of the Office of the President. What he can’t do is enforce that agreement after he’s gone from office. That takes the Senate to do that.
And here is the other problem ... we lost the “veto-proof Congress” I was reading about before. They had the votes before, but NOT NOW!!
‘Netanyahu has burned his bridges with Black Democrats’ [Netanyahu Congress Speech]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3272892/posts
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress challenging President Barack Obama’s Iran policy as well as the premier’s controversial “Arabs are voting in droves” comments during the Israeli election campaign have so infuriated African-American Democrats that “it will be very difficult” for them to lend a sympathetic ear to Israel’s concerns in Congress, Newsweek is reporting on Friday.
“The Congressional Black Caucus is gone,” a Democratic congressional aide told Newsweek.
The reported alienation felt by Black Democrats has practical significance for Netanyahu since it effectively kills any chance that lawmakers could submit legislation mandating new Iran sanctions that would have enough supporters to override an Obama veto.
“Bibi ensured there will be no veto-proof majority in the House,” a Capitol Hill source told Newsweek.
Launch the combined forces strike package on Weds
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