October 21, 2014 | Quote
Obama Might Try To Circumvent Congress On An Iran Deal — And He’s Already Getting An Earful
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“The administration has been signaling for months that it will ignore Congress and impose a deal over their objections for one simple reason: The White House knows that any agreement it reaches with Iran will not meet the minimum bipartisan deal criteria set out in the Menendez-Kirk legislation that enjoys the support of 60 Democratic and Republican senators,” Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Business Insider.
“The White House also is more interested in seducing Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with promises that Obama can deliver sanctions concessions without Congress. It's an interesting negotiation strategy — and one more likely to weaken your leverage — to be trying to seduce your opponent's bad cop while muzzling your own bad cop.”
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