Congress plan to review Iran deal ‘game’

“This is a game between the executive and legislative branches in the US which is played in accordance with the needs of the [US] executive branch on the international stage or in negotiations with Iran,” Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, said Wednesday.

He made the remarks in a meeting with Indian Roads, Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari in Tehran.
Earlier on April 14, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved a bill giving Congress authority to reject a final nuclear agreement with Iran. The US senate is now planning a debate on authorizing Congress to review a possible accord with Tehran.

US President Barack Obama accepted to sign the new bill after some changes were made.
According to the legislation, President Obama should submit the final nuclear deal between Iran and the six world powers for congressional review and he would not be allowed to lift sanctions levied by Congress against Iran during the review period.

Velayati further dismissed the idea that Obama in under pressure from Congress to sign the bill since both Democrats and Republicans unanimously approved the legislation.
The senior Iranian official said that the Americans will fail to put Iran in a bind.
Iran will not yield to any imposition from the US or any other country over its nuclear program, he said.

Iran and the P5+1 group of countries -- the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany -- reached a mutual understanding on the parameters of a comprehensive agreement over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program in Lausanne, Switzerland, on April 2.

The two sides held expert-level talks in Vienna, Austria, on April 24. The three-day talks were held in a bid to draft the text of a final agreement based on the mutual understanding reached in Lausanne.
Iran and the six-party group have agreed to finalize a comprehensive deal on Tehran’s nuclear program by the end of June.
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