There is quite good chance for Iran agreement to pass Congress: Analyst
An American foreign policy commentator says there is a “quite good chance” of approval for the Iran nuclear agreement in the US Congress even if all of the Republicans vote against it.
“I think the chances of approving the agreement in the Congress are quite good,” said James George Jatras, a former US diplomat and adviser to the Senate Republican leadership.
He made the remarks shortly after 34th Senate Democrat announced his support for the agreement and survived President Barack Obama’s top foreign policy legacy from disapproval.
Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski, who will be retired in 2016, announced on Wednesday that she would support the deal reached between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries -- the US, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany – in the Austrian capital, Vienna, on July 14.
The Congress is set to vote on a resolution of disapproval over the agreement later this month.
Under the agreement, restrictions will be put on Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for, among other things, the removal of all economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
“The Democrats will be very carefully counting noses and essentially giving a pass to certain senators and congressmen to vote NO on the agreement, but maintaining and reserve enough senators and congressmen to uphold it after the certain veto that will come from the White House,” said Jatras.
“What they will do is to say to these senators and congressmen who may be endangered for re-election: You, you and you can vote against the agreement but the other guys have to vote for it and I’m confident that there would be enough votes to support the agreement and at the end even with virtually all of the Republicans voting against it,” he added.
Most Republicans, including at least two prominent Senate Democrats -- Chuck Schumer and Bob Menendez -- have opposed the nuclear agreement.
Democratic Senator Ben Cardin had predicted on Tuesday that there would be enough votes in the Senate over the agreement by the weekend.
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