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Iran Deal Rolls On: Senate GOP Livid At Democrats’ Use Of Familiar Tactics
September 10, 2015Toni Matthews Politics
The United States will go forward with the Iran deal thanks to a successful filibuster by Senate Democrats. CNN called it a “significant win for the White House,” as President Barack Obama promised to veto any legislation from Congress that interfered with efforts to deal with Iran diplomatically. With this vote, he won’t have to.
The Iran deal is an agreement between the Islamic Republic of Iran and a coalition of world powers, including the United States. The Middle Eastern nation is expected to forego attempts to build or acquire a nuclear weapon. It will also submit to close monitoring by inspectors to ensure compliance. In exchange, damaging oil and financial sanctions will be lifted.
The Iran deal is highly controversial, especially among the conservatives in Congress. Some fear Iran cannot be trusted. Republican politicians have worked hard to convince Americans that Iran will use the lifted sanctions to make itself more of a threat to the world than to follow a path that unites it with the international community.
The vote ended 58 to 42, with the Senate Republicans just shy of the 60 votes needed to fend off a partisan filibuster effort by the Democrats. The outrage on the part of GOP members of the Senate became apparent immediately. According to Politico, the angered Republicans accused the victorious Democrats “of being obstructionist” for leaning so hard on the “supermajority requirement” to defeat their bill.
President Barack Obama promised to veto any legislation from Congress that interfered with efforts to deal with Iran diplomatically. With this vote, he won’t have to.
It’s worth noting that Republicans gladly used this method to fight Democratic bills they disagreed with when they were the minority in the Senate. The GOP is also blamed for shutting down the government in an effort to strong-arm Democrats on certain issues.
Despite Republican anger and promised efforts to force future votes, Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., is confident that the outcome will remain the same no matter how many times the GOP tries to broach the issue in the Senate. His confidence may be tested sooner rather than later, as Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., reportedly will attempt a “do-over” next week. “[McConnell has] lost the vote,” said Reid.
“Any future attempts to re-litigate this issue in the Senate will meet the same outcome and will be nothing more than wasted time.”
It seems that despite McConnell’s aims, many Republican leaders sense that they’ve been utterly defeated on the Iran Deal. The September 17th deadline is rapidly approaching; the date will officially signal the United State’s participation in the Iran deal with its Western allies.
The best that House Republicans offer in support of the defeated Senate Republicans is a “three-prong-attack” against President Obama’s deal. House Republicans claim the president broke the law by not bringing the full agreement with Iran before Congress. It’s alleged that there are various “side deals” with Iran that Congress and the American people aren’t fully aware of.
The legislative action may be symbolic more so than effective with so little time left. Opposition efforts aside, the United States is on the threshold of a historic deal with Iran — one that will prove to be a significant foreign policy achievement for President Obama. When he learned that the Democrats were successful in their filibuster efforts, Obama hailed it as “a victory for diplomacy.”
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