Apparently aware that despite polls showing most Americans supporting the Iran nuclear deal, most in the Senate are opposed, President Obama has reportedly sought to reassure Senate Dems that there was a good chance no nuclear deal would be reached at all.
During a cocktail party Tuesday night, Obama told a group of Senators, including Dick Durbin (D – IL) that he believed the chances of a deal were “less than 50-50 at this point” and that the US would walk away if they thought the deal was too weak.
Obama is believed to be trying to tamp down media reports that a deal is close, and that the White House is desperate to get a pact done by Thursday to give Congress less time to vote on the matter, believing Congress will have a harder time voting the deal down if they only have 30 days. They would have 60 days to debate the matter if the deal is reached after Thursday.
While the White House seems eager to retain a narrative that a deal is unlikely and that they might end the talks at any moment, it’s hard to see how they will transition this to support for a deal if one is actually reached.The policy seems to be to avoid debate on the deal for as long as possible, but may backfire in creating more resistance to the pact by leaving the anti-deal lobbies the only ones talking about it.
The millionaire boys club, the U.S. Senate, will not follow the will of the majority. They are owned by Israel.
"it’s hard to see how they will transition this to support for a deal if one is actually reached"
They are setting up to claim that Iran caved in at the last minute to our hard headed negotiating tactics. The claim will be that it is such a great deal exactly because Obama was so ready to walk away.
That is not true of course. But it is lying to liars, heading off warmongers, so I can cut some slack here.
What a tiresome and cringeworthy bit of nonsense US diplomacy has become that Obama says things like this. The sooner this deal is done by mature nations sidelining the US the better. Leave insulting wank..rs like the yanks behind to rue the lost opportunity to become a non pariah nation.
The Iran Deal will be decided by factors totally unrelated to logic or what makes sense. It will be decided by the insanity of US Senators who are Christian Zionists, oil speculators not wanting Iran to push another million of barrels/day into the glut, the effectiveness of Sheldon Adelson's political campaign checks, etc. As Andrew Nichols (above) says – the US is now too childish/too corrupt to be allowed to run the World.
For the following reason the UN embargo of Iran on the import and development of non-nuclear arms should have been lifted by the "five" soon after the fall of Mosul to ISIL. ISIL is potentially a much greater threat to Iran than Israel. ISIL wants to destroy apostate Shiite Iran, no matter what. Sure, ISIL does not have the military wherewithal to destroy Iran but if it reaches the Iraq-Iran border it can begin cross-border terrorist attacks into Iran. Only heavens knows what the consequences might be and perhaps even heavens does not know.
The following may sound absurd but it may not be so. Any solution of the "Middle Eastern Question" and defeat of ISIL hinges on the alliance of an Israel-Saudi Arabia-Iran "axis" with support from Egypt and the immediate establishment of a Palestinian state. You have got to be a political sorcerer to bring this about especially when your apprentice sorcerers (actually all Presidential 1916 aspirants this time. Senator Sanders has not yet said much about the total ME) have nothing to offer whatsoever other than their mantra "Obama is weak".
The failure of the Obama administration is that it has not forcefully and consistently enough promoted and defended a policy that a strong non-nuclear Iran is not a threat to ME peace but is the necessary Easternmost member of a future "cordon sanitaire" against the ISIL's of the Middle East. Instead it has also stoked the flames of a dangerous Iran which needs to be locked up in a "non-nuclear agreement cage". The consequences of this shortsighted policy will plague several future generations.
My take is that the current situation of the Middle East is about as hopeless of solution without the continuation of warring as the condition of the so-called "Eastern Question" was in 1914.
Iran is being set up like the dummies Iraq and Libya . Remove your defences and we promise happy days to come.
What does this guy really believe?? He should get out there and explain himself and explain whats going on. Of course there will always be people who disagree, but he's got the bully pulpit…use it!
The Zionists don't like it,rock the temple….Spin and Marty on a snipe hunt.
As I've said all along, Obama is setting everyone up for the deal to be killed by Congress – which insures that he isn't blamed for the failure. This while Iran deal scam has been nothing but a PR attempt by Obama to provide himself with SOME "legacy" that doesn't include the four countries he's destroyed during his administration (Libya, Iraq, Yemen and Ukraine) and the utter failures of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Obama has consistently supported chaos in the Middle East and now in Eastern Europe while heightening tensions with China. All his efforts in the Middle East – including the Syria crisis – has been aimed directly at eventually getting a war with Iran. Everything he has done has been done deliberately and with full knowledge of the consequences. But his main goal has been to deflect any blame on him so he can flaunt his Nobel Peace Prize.
When the Iran deal falls apart – and it will, either during his administration or the administration of the President to follow (which Obama would prefer as it would again shift blame from him) – we will be right back where we started under Bush – another decade-long Middle East war at a cost of trillions of dollars and millions of lives.
You people simply don't understand how deep the corruption goes in Washington.