U.S. says nuclear weapon impossible for Iran under nuclear deal

/By AzerNews/

By Sara Rajabova

The Obama administration is pushing all efforts for Congress to seal the Iran nuclear deal, which was clinched between the Islamic Republic and P5+1 states in Vienna, Austria on July 14 after long-standing negotiations.

The Obama administration is attempting to convince lawmakers that under the deal, Iran’s nuclear energy program would be under international supervision and that the agreement would prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring nuclear weapon.

In his recent remarks, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned that if the United States doesn’t go through with the deal and demands that its allies comply with U.S. sanctions, the dollar may soon cease to be the world's reserve currency.

Kerry said at a Reuters Newsmaker event on August 11 that by walking away from nuclear deal “as Congress wants to do, will have a profound negative impact on people's sense of American leadership and reliability.”

The top U.S. diplomats’ argument is considered a new method in convincing the Capitol Hill to accept the long-awaited deal.

The Republican controlled Congress has until September 17 to reject the deal, while Obama has threatened to veto any resolution of disapproval from Congress. In order to block a presidential veto, both the House and Senate would have to secure a two-thirds majority vote.

In a speech at a Washington DC university in early August, Obama described a forthcoming congressional vote on lifting sanctions as either a vote for war or for peace. He said the deal is the "strongest non-proliferation agreement ever negotiated".

Kerry went on to say that it would be impossible for Iran, under the nuclear agreement between Iran and major powers, to create a secret program for developing atomic fuel without the United States being able to detect it.

The U.S. administration also believes that Iran in the past few years was not engaged in nuclear development with possible military dimensions.

While noting that the U.S. government has "no doubt" that Tehran has in the recent past, "pursued the developing of nuclear weapons," Kerry however added that according to U.S. intelligence, the Iranians stopped such activities approximately in 2005.