Democrats also question Biden's Iran nuke deal

 Washington Free Beacon:

House Democrats are privately becoming increasingly skeptical of a new nuclear deal with Iran, as concerns mount over carveouts in the accord that will provide Iran with billions of dollars in cash windfalls and permit Russia to build up the country’s nuclear sites, according to Rep. Michael McCaul (R., Texas), the lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC).

"We’re in the minority. But there are a lot of Democrats who don’t like this deal," McCaul told the Washington Free Beacon in an exclusive interview last week from the sidelines of the annual Republican policy retreat. HFAC members on both sides of the aisle emerged from a recent classified briefing on the deal with mounting concerns that the concessions granted under the deal outweigh the benefits of limited restrictions on Iran’s contested nuclear program.

McCaul said that during the briefing, "I was doing a whip count [and] it was not good for the [Biden] administration." Republicans would need at least eight House Democrats to break ranks and vote with them in opposition to a deal. And though the deal is likely to be announced well before the midterm elections, it is expected that if Republicans take the majority they will move to reimpose sanctions on Iran and nullify the terms of any deal Biden inks.
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The Obama nuke deal with Iran was bad and this one is worse.  Both look crazy.  They put Iran on the glide path to unclear weapons and give the genocidal religious bigots or Iran money and infrastructure to make it easier for them to get nuclear weapons. 

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