Speaking at a televised conference today, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani praised the negotiating team that settled on last week’s nuclear deal with the P5+1, and expressed exasperation at domestic critics of the pact, saying he can’t imagine how any Iranian objects to a deal that lifts the sanctions.
“This is a new page in history,” Rouhani insisted, saying it was all well and good to pick through the deal line by line to find things to complain about, but that “what has happened is more valuable and more significant than that.”
Rouhani said ensuring Iran’s rights to a civilian nuclear program was important, but that Iranians also needed to be able to live their daily lives, noting the international sanctions had reduced Iran’s international trade to “a stone age level.”
With Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei endorsing the pact, even with some reservations, the criticism from the ultra-Conservative opposition and members of the military really amounts to very little, and the deal isn’t in any serious danger of being rejected in Iran.
Since when has peace been a bad thing you retards?
Whose retards are you talking about? Their retards or our retards?
Here is one hypothetical outcome of the considerations in Congress. Senate votes no. House votes no. President Obama sends whatever it is back to Congress but unsigned. Senate does not override. House overrides. President Obama declares that it is on solid constitutional ground that he can assure the nation that the Vienna agreement is now US law. The Senate has ratified. It is all over except for angry shouting by the GOP candidates.
The House votes were a ridiculous exercise of wasting time and taxpayers money.
Rouhani's domestic critics may be sincerely misguided, but at least they aren't 'fifth columnists' of a foreign power that characterizes the Congressional push-back here.
Perhaps that is exactly the point? perhaps they are??