U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell defended on Sunday the letter he and 46 other Republican senators sent to the leaders of the Iranian regime on Monday, in which they warned any deal they sign with the Obama Administration would serve only as an executive agreement that could be revoked by a future president.
Senator McConnell also expressed his concern that President Obama is about to make a very bad nuclear deal.
“The President is about to make what we believe is a very bad deal. He clearly doesn’t want Congress involved at all. And we’re worried about it,” McConnell told CNN.
Meanwhile, the Republican nominee for president in 2012 Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama could silence critics like him by walking away from a nuclear agreement with Iran, arguing in a USA Today op-ed published Friday that it would be “courageous” and “right.”
The Republican nominee for president in 2012 said that although any deal would make the president look good politically, history shows such “agreements with tyrants and fanatics have very short shelf lives.”
“Turning down a weak deal may be too much to expect from a president who walked back from his own red line in Syria, but we can hope,” he concluded.
Noting past broken nuclear agreements and frameworks with North Korea, Romney said those deals were even tougher than the ones Secretary of State John Kerry is pushing.
