Debbie Wasserman Schultz comes in favor of Iran nuclear agreement

Despite immense pressure to oppose the Iran nuclear agreement, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida’s first Jewish congresswoman, has said she would vote in favor of the deal in Congress.

“In weighing all the information that I had in front of me, I concluded that the best thing to do is to vote in support of the Iran deal,” Wasserman told CNN on Sunday.

The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee and Florida’s Representative said it was her most difficult decision in more than two decades in public office.

Schultz explained that she has been in the White House's Situation Room more than two dozen times over the last two years to get briefed on the nuclear negotiations between Iran and P5+1 group counties -- the US, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany – which were concluded in the Austrian capital, Vienna, on July 14.

Under the Vienna agreement, Iran has been recognized by the United Nations as a nuclear power and will continue its uranium enrichment program, but some restrictions will be placed on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the removal of sanctions.

The leading Jewish lawmaker from Florida, home to the third-largest Jewish population in the United States, has been under pressure to oppose the agreement in Congress.

Schultz said President Barack Obama has assured her that she would be part of a group of members in Congress working with the administration to develop an enhanced security package for Israel.

Vice President Joe Biden also met with Jewish leaders in South Florida last week urging them to back the agreement.

The Republican-dominated Congress is reviewing the nuclear agreement and has until September 17 to vote to either approve or disapprove of it.

Obama, however, has vowed to veto any resolution that would disapprove the agreement.

He already has secured enough Democratic votes in favor of the deal in the Senate. Many House Democrats have also begun to announce their backing of the president’s foreign policy legacy.

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