Washington – Following months of intensified calls by Israel to block any deals with Iran, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial speech to Congress, members of the US senate say that their opinions on a nuclear deal with Iran have not budged.
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Sen. Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, speaking to Politico, said that Netanyahu did not believe in the potential for a good deal, suggesting he should rather be open to fixing certain issues. “You can agree on some of the specifics that ‘yeah, this is a matter of concern,’ without necessarily agreeing that there’s no way to address it,” Kaine said. “He doesn’t see any way to address it, but I’m not sure that’s the case.”
Another example came from a February 6 meeting between Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California and Israeli ambassador to the US Ron Dermer. Following the meeting, which Feinstein herself arranged, she said Dermer’s intention was to change her mind regarding an Iran deal, as well as to make her skeptical of US negotiation capabilities.
“It didn’t work,” Feinstein said, though noting that the two had “a good two-sided discussion I thought cleared the air.”
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, said that intelligence he has received from US and Israeli sources has been the same and that Israel is simply closed to the idea of negotiations. “They [Israeli officials] don’t like the deal.”
Sen. Angus King, an independent from Maine who caucuses with the Democrats, said that “They [Israeli officials] are putting on a full-court press to say it’s a bad deal.”
“The deal’s not done…I’m not sure how you say it’s a bad deal. We don’t know what the deal is.”
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said the US Senate would vote on a bill to toughen sanctions on Iran if international negotiators miss a deadline on March 31 for reaching a framework nuclear agreement.
“Another heavy dose of sanctions would be an appropriate remedy if there’s no agreement at all,” McConnell told a weekly news briefing.
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Are the Saudis efforts on Iran failing? Iran’s nuclear program is the one issue that Israel and Saudi Arabia are in agreement.
When looking at the Israeli position, we have to keep in mind that the stated purpose of Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons is the destruction of Israel and its Jewish population. This should bring a large measure of sensitivity to the Israeli position which the U.S. does not appreciate.
Bibi does not believe Iran can be trusted, no matter what the deal. He thinks that the sanctions are working and eventually there will be regime change. History will tell who is correct.
Bibi is exactly right!!
He knows the Iranians and understands that when Iran says “I am going to annihilate Israel from the face of this earth” you believe him.
70 years ago another rasha tried it and said the same thing
and president Behaima and all our so called “jewish”friends isin Congress are closing their eyes and ears to this fact.
Vote the democrat/liberal/progressives out of Congress before it is too late!!
Our “jewish” elected officials in Congress among the Democrats will not change!!
These democrats don’t seem to get it… because Israel’s very existence is at stake here, if anything they *have to* err on the side of caution, on the side of assuming Iran intends to use nukes to, c”v… (go figure – pretty good assumption given what the Iranian government has said multiple times)… because to err the other way, R”L, would be a mistake that could not be undone.
“He doesn’t see any way to address it, but I’m not sure that’s the case.”
This Sen. Tim Kaine-D (and Obama too for that matter) either didn’t hear Netanyahu’s speech, or is creating his own version of reality to push forth his own anti-Israel agenda. Netanyahu clearly suggested a “way to address it” and it involved getting tougher on the Ayatollahs.
Most Democrats blindly follow, as in, “we have to pass the bill to see what’s in it.” In terms of the U.S. current capabilities to negotiate, the very same lead negotiator with N. Korea is negotiating with Iran. They said the same nonsense with N. Korea as they are saying with Iran and the results will be the same.
The bottom line is that Obama wants any deal with Iran for his own purposes and the repercussions of it are someone else’s pro.blem
What a waste of the meeting Diana Feinstien as IF she would have changed her mind! what do you think, even if she would have been convinced, she as all politicians and Dems will follow Obama blindly.
For any US politician to make the survival of Israel A partisan issue is nothing short of horrific. Those Democrats who are blindly following our obviously biased President in his rampage against Netanyahu and Israel, should be ashamed of themselves….but probably won’t be till they are gone. As America will vote in a loyal American Republican next Presidential election, the G-D fearing citizens of the US should vote out all who have turned on the Jewish State regardless of their past party affiliations. We do not turn on time tested friends and allies, as if we are mad dogs.
Well thank goodness the democrats wield no power in the House or Senate.
The only thing the Democrats should be concerned with is loosing more seats and the WH in 2016
And to think, there are some secular Jewish morons who still don’t understand which party is on our side.