Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton did not back down and was adamant that the letter he and 46 other GOP senators signed was well needed to Iran. Senate Republicans recently sent a letter to the Iranian leaders about the nuclear negotiations that have been going on with them and President Obama. For a while now the United States has imposed great sanctions on Iran for their nuclear agenda. The U.S. has been constantly working on a deal with Iran for them to stop their enrichment of uranium in order to lift economic sanctions against Iran. The letter was pretty simple in that Republicans stressed that any deal Obama makes with the Iranian leaders that has not been approved by Congress will not be binding and that sanctions will come again in 2017 when Obama leaves office. Many officials such as John Kerry saw this act by Cotton and Senate Republicans as undermining the Obama administration efforts. Supporters see it as Republicans trying to make sure that the president does not make a bad deal with Iran. While many critics believe that their actions breached foreign policy. This marks the second time where Congress took matters into their own hands regarding foreign policy. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Congress a few weeks ago without even meeting with the president. This is highly irregular and confrontational because the president is usually the one who speaks with foreign leaders and institutes his military agenda. I think it will be interesting to see how this all plays out. There is some major polarization occurring in Washington and the ability for branches to work together is dwindling. I just hope that Iran sees the U.S. is not backing down and that their nuclear agenda will not be something that we will tolerate no matter what. I think that was clear in the letter.
Seth Hillesland
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/15/freshmen-gop-sen-cotton-says-no-regrets-about-letter-warning-iran-about-nuclear/?intcmp=latestnews
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