AP- House Republican leaders are urging President Barack Obama to take no more action on Iran that could reinforce the nuclear deal before he leaves office.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce are issuing the request in a letter to Obama dated Tuesday.
The Republicans say they expect ...
(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told skeptical Republicans and Democrats on Monday that the U.S. Congress should give him another two and a half months to secure a final nuclear deal withIran.
In a closed briefing with the full House of Representatives, Kerry sought to blunt legislation that would give Congress the opportunity to ...
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the US Senate will vote on legislation that seeks to ensure lawmakers will have a say before a final agreement is reached with Iran on its nuclear program in June 2015.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) The US Senate will vote onlegislation that seeks toensure lawmakers will have a say beforea final ...
The Republican Congress is demanding to be heard on a nuclear deal with Iran despite President Barack Obamas warnings. But its the presidents Democratic allies in the Senate that hold the keys to any Iran bill.
Republicans have written legislation they think can move quickly through the Senate. It would give Congress a critical role in accepting ...
Republican opponentsof a framework agreement with Iran received millions in campaign donations in 2014 from pro-Israel billionaires and other influential American donors, according to a report.
Republicans, now in control of both chambers of US Congress, are more ardently pro-Israel than ever before as they collected more money during the 2014 election ...
WASHINGTONPresidentBarack Obamas bet on a diplomatic agreement to deter Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon faces an immediate test at home, where he must overcome the politics of skeptical Republicans as well as some Democrats in Congress.
The political strugglepart of the most complex battle of Mr. Obamas presidencyis already under way as the ...
In September 1996, I visited Iran. One of my most enduring memories of that trip was that in my hotel lobby there was a sign above the door proclaiming Down With USA.But it wasnt a banner or graffiti.It was tiled and plastered into the wall.I thought to myself: Wow thats tiled in there! That wont come out easily. Nearly 20 years later, in the wake ...
(Reuters) - Senate Republicans on Sunday pressed their demand that the U.S. Congress be allowed to vote on a nuclear agreement withIran, but signaled they are willing to wait for last week's interim agreement to be finalized before passing judgment.
"Look, the president needs to sell this to the American people, and Congress needs to be involved,...
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who has emerged as a key critic of the Obama administration's moves to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, vowed Friday to keep a framework agreement from materializing.
"I'm going to do everything I can to stop these terms from becoming a final deal," Cotton said Friday onCNN's "The Lead,"noting it is unclear when the deal ...
Top Republicans have condemned the tentative deal, despite probably not having the first clue about what it entails.
A small part of theMiddle Eastmay soon be off limits to US bombing and killing, so naturally Republicans and their neocon allies are furious.
The tentative Iran deal announced on 3 April, in which Western leaders and the Islamic ...
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The open letter from Senator Tom Cotton and 46 other Republican senators to the leadership of Iran, whicheven ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans critical of U.S.-Iran nuclear talks contend President ...
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It isnowclearthat any deal with Iran will by its terms be a non-binding agreement. That means the United States will have no international law obligation to comply with the agreement, considered in isolation, and that ...
[caption id="attachment_153050" align="alignright" width="199"] Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, before the House Appropriations subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Agencies. Kerry has implored skeptical senators not to criticize nuclear negotiations with Iran before ...
TEHRAN (Tasnim)- Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has slammed US senators letter against a possible deal over Irans nuclear program saying it reveals the "collapse of US political ethics."
Ayatollah Khamenei also expressed concern about the ploys of the other side and said whenever the deadline for nuclear ...
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Republican Sen. Tom Cotton sparred Wednesday with Hillary Clinton on Twitter, after the former ...
[caption id="attachment_155117" align="alignright" width="183"] From left: Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell[/caption]
Tens of thousands of Americans have signed a petition to the White House demanding treason charges against 47 Republican senators who attempted to sabotage President Barack Obama's efforts to reach a nuclear accord with Iran....
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After helping to ignite a firestorm over a possible nuclear agreement with Iran, Senator John McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate, is now sort of acknowledging his error. Maybe that wasnt exactly the best way to do that, he said on Fox News ...
[caption id="attachment_154701" align="alignright" width="161"] FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2014 file photo, then-Sen.-elect Tom Cotton, R-Ark. waves at his election watch party in North Little Rock, Ark., after defeating incumbent Sen. Mark Pryor. Forty-seven Republican senators warned Monday that any agreement the Obama administration strikes with Iran ...
[caption id="attachment_154701" align="alignright" width="153"] FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2014 file photo, then-Sen.-elect Tom Cotton, R-Ark. waves at his election watch party in North Little Rock, Ark., after defeating incumbent Sen. Mark Pryor. [/caption]
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican lawmakers warned the leaders of Iran on Monday that any nuclear ...
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