Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz applauded a bill in the US Senate to demand oversight of the Obama Administration’s negotiations with Iran over its renegade nuclear program. “This is more pressure and another barrier in the face of a bad agreement and therefore the administration and the negotiating team will make more of an effort to seal gaps and to achieve an agreement that looks better, or at least more reasonable, so that it will pass in Congress,” Steinitz told Israel Radio. Obama removed his opposition to the bill Tuesday after face saving modifications were made and it passed out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by a unanimous 19-0 vote. Meanwhile, Iranian negotiators have continued to insist that they will not sign any comprehensive agreement unless all sanctions are dropped on the same day, an arrangement that Western negotiators have said is a non-starter. Read More
