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"Senate Democrats who've been wobbly on the Iran deal are breaking President Barack Obama's way.
Three key Democratic holdouts threw their support behind the nuclear accord with Iran on Thursday — one day after Obama clinched enough votes to guarantee Congress can’t kill his agreement.
Sens. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Mark Warner of Virginia and Cory Booker of New Jersey formally announced their backing. All three said the deal isn't flawless but beats the alternative.
“It is not a perfect deal, nor is this deal about trust,” Heitkamp said Thursday. “It’s about making sure we have in place the strongest mechanisms possible to accomplish our goal by holding Iran to the most sweeping concessions about its nuclear program it has ever made.”
Warner struck a similar tone, saying he still had “several areas of concern” about the nuclear agreement reached by six world powers and Iran in July. Still, “the choice I ultimately had to make was between accepting an imperfect deal or facing the serious ramifications if Congress rejected a deal that has the support of the rest of the world.”
The Virginia senator also made clear he would like changes to the agreement, including ensuring that Congress will still be able to impose sanctions against Iran that target its “numerous other destabilizing activities including support for terrorism.”
Booker, who's faced pressure from the Jewish community in New Jersey to oppose the deal, said his decision was a choice between “two imperfect, dangerous and uncertain options.”
“Left with these two choices, I nonetheless believe it is better to support a deeply flawed deal, for the alternative is worse,” Booker wrote in a 3,395-word essay. “Thus, I will vote in support of the deal. But the United States must recognize that to make this deal work, we must be more vigilant than ever in fighting Iranian aggression.” ".....
"Senate Democrats who've been wobbly on the Iran deal are breaking President Barack Obama's way.
Three key Democratic holdouts threw their support behind the nuclear accord with Iran on Thursday — one day after Obama clinched enough votes to guarantee Congress can’t kill his agreement.
Sens. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Mark Warner of Virginia and Cory Booker of New Jersey formally announced their backing. All three said the deal isn't flawless but beats the alternative.
“It is not a perfect deal, nor is this deal about trust,” Heitkamp said Thursday. “It’s about making sure we have in place the strongest mechanisms possible to accomplish our goal by holding Iran to the most sweeping concessions about its nuclear program it has ever made.”
Warner struck a similar tone, saying he still had “several areas of concern” about the nuclear agreement reached by six world powers and Iran in July. Still, “the choice I ultimately had to make was between accepting an imperfect deal or facing the serious ramifications if Congress rejected a deal that has the support of the rest of the world.”
The Virginia senator also made clear he would like changes to the agreement, including ensuring that Congress will still be able to impose sanctions against Iran that target its “numerous other destabilizing activities including support for terrorism.”
Booker, who's faced pressure from the Jewish community in New Jersey to oppose the deal, said his decision was a choice between “two imperfect, dangerous and uncertain options.”
“Left with these two choices, I nonetheless believe it is better to support a deeply flawed deal, for the alternative is worse,” Booker wrote in a 3,395-word essay. “Thus, I will vote in support of the deal. But the United States must recognize that to make this deal work, we must be more vigilant than ever in fighting Iranian aggression.” ".....
