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10.04pm BSTThe House of Representatives is now voting on the first anti-Iran deal legislation that it will consider in the coming days.
House Resolution 411 states that President Obama has not complied with the Corker Cardin bill,which allowed for Congress to vote on the Iran agreement. It is a purely symbolic degree merely designed to build up a record for future litigation to block elements of the Iran deal. 9.53pm BSTAIPAC, the bipartisan pro-Israel group which opposed the agreement, and has come out with a statement targeting the legitimacy of the Iran deal despite nowadays’s vote.
It reads in part:In sum,this deeply flawed, unpopular agreement with a distrusted, and terrorist-sponsoring regime will lack the imprimatur of either the American people or the Senate. By its vote nowadays,the Senate has sent a strong message to the world that the American people are deeply skeptical about Iran’s willingness to meet its commitments and the long term viability of this agreement. This vote should provide a note of caution -- particularly to foreign companies and governments -- about jumping back into Iran.
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Source: theguardian.com