White House Claims the New Congress Will Support Obama Striking a Deal with Iran

‘The president has made a strong case, and I think that there is bipartisan agreement about this ...’

KLEIN: "Good morning. You have a couple of very big events coming up. Most importantly I think November 24th, the end of the talks, the Iran talks. If you get a deal, under these circumstances, how on earth are you going to get the Congress to agree to it?"

EARNEST: "Well, Joe, I mean, I think the president was pretty sanguine about the situation with these talks as they exist right now. There are some very difficult aspects of these negotiations that have still not been resolved. And it is also clear that there are some very important decisions that the Iranian negotiators and the Iranian regime need to make for themselves about what they are willing to do to resolve the international community concerns about their nuclear program and about their efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon. The president has made a strong case and I think there’s bipartisan agreement about this that the best way we can resolve the international community's concerns about Iran's nuclear program is to try to resolve them diplomatically. That if we can negotiate an agreement that will give the international community clear visibility into what exactly Iran’s doing. That's the best way to ease everybody’s concerns about their program. In fact, that is actually a better resolution than even taking military strikes because you can take a military strike but that is inherently temporary. Iran of course is going to try to rebuild that capability if you take a military strike. But if you reach a diplomatic solution, negotiated solution that allows the international community to have some clear visibility into what their plans are, that’s the way you can assure everybody of the peaceful nature of the Iran's nuclear program. This is going to require some significant commitments on the part of the Iranians and that remains to be seen if they are willing to make them."

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