Phillips of Heritage says he expects Obama to give Salman little more than “platitudes of support” – because anything more would go against the president’s cautious approach to the region.
Iran’s adversarial intentions and activities are well known.
He is not wildly enthusiastic about the Iran nuclear deal.
It was the the Arab leader’s first visit to the United States since ascending the throne in January, following the death of King Abdullah.
“There won’t be any other talks with the White House, except for the nuclear issue”.
He said he and Cardin had developed a “legislative package to address the accumulated shortcomings of our policies toward Iran, and to strengthen the agreement“. Bob Menendez and New York Sen. Congress, which returns Tuesday from an August recess, has a September 17 deadline to vote on the agreement. The United States is, and must always remain, prepared to use military force to prevent that from happening.
The Iran nuclear deal passed one obstacle in the Senate and now must pass the House. Chuck Schumer – who have declared that they would not put their weight behind the agreement negotiated by the US and five other world powers with Iran.
A country that is uninterested in nuclear weapons doesn’t need any of that. It is not a ideal deal nor is this deal about trust – it’s about making sure we have in place the strongest mechanisms possible to accomplish our goal by holding Iran to the most sweeping concessions about its nuclear program it has ever made. Plus, it is also set to acquire advanced S-300 air defenses from Russian Federation at the end of this year.
Former US ambassador Francis Ricciardone, now director of the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, said Saudi Arabia has a stake in seeing its northern neighbor stabilized. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Mark Warner of Virginia and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota became the 35th, 36th and 37th senators to back the deal.
Since March, the United States of America has been supporting a Saudi-led intervention against Yemen’s Iran-aided rebels.
The Gulf nation has come under fire for its bombing campaign, which has killed hundreds of Yemenis in strikes hitting civilian targets, including a dairy factory and residential compounds.
Toomey warned that the deal would also “make military conflict more likely, not less”.
Over the past few months, I’ve participated in dozens of meetings, briefings and congressional hearings on the agreement.
“Under Salman, Saudi Arabia has continued to execute people in record numbers, including nonviolent drug offenders; repressed pro-reform activists and peaceful dissidents; failed to take steps to protect the rights of foreign workers; and maintained its systematic discrimination against women and religious minorities”, the organization’s statement said.
Carolyn Presutti is an Emmy and Silver World Medal award winning television correspondent who works out of VOA’s Washington headquarters.
Furthermore, the bill would require that the president routinely report to Congress on how Iran is spending the assets it regains access to under the deal, as well as setting the stage for the speedy re-imposition of sanctions in the event that Iran is found to be behind the financing or planning of terrorist plots targeting the West. In 2013, Carolyn aired exclusive stories on the Asiana plane crash and was named VOA’s chief reporter with Google Glass. “Like all of the radical Islamic terror movements, if Iran is able to inflict harm on Americans, it will do so”.