Obama Vows to Veto Any Legislation That Would Block Iran Deal
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 7:27 AM EDT
Iran and a group of six nations led by the United States said they had reached a historic accord on Tuesday to significantly limit Tehran’s nuclear ability for more than a decade in return for lifting international oil and financial sanctions.
President Obama, in an early morning appearance at the White House that was broadcast live in Iran, began what promised to be an arduous effort to sell the deal to Congress and the American public, saying the agreement was “not built on trust. It is built on verification.”
But Mr. Obama made it abundantly clear that he would fight to preserve the deal in its entirety, saying, “I will veto any legislation that prevents the successful implementation of this deal.”
He added that the accord was preferable to the alternate scenario of an unbridled Iran touching off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, adding that his successors in the White House “will be in a far stronger position” to restrain Iran for decades to come than they would be without it.
Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, made a brief statement, saying that the Iranian people’s “prayers have come true.”
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