If the Iran Accord Goes Through, What Happens Next?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The Iran nuclear deal is closer than ever to becoming reality with opponents in trouble — not just in the Senate, but also in Congress. But, even if the "Resolution of Disapproval" fails in both houses, disagreement over the deal itself may continue — into the first term of the next President.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center. |
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| 0:17.9 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:25.7 | The deal may be done. The grandstanding continues. |
| 0:32.5 | Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. A daily |
| 0:36.7 | look at the issues Americans care about most. Efforts to stop the Iran nuclear deal appear to have failed in the Senate, |
| 0:42.5 | and leaders of Congress have postponed action on the resolution of disapproval. But the opposition |
| 0:47.7 | won't go away, and today's debate is a measure of how difficult future diplomacy will be for |
| 0:52.7 | President Obama and his successor. |
| 0:55.1 | While Hillary Clinton was supporting the deal this morning, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz were rallying opposition. |
| 1:00.6 | Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, and Sarah Palin are being heard from on different sides of the issue. |
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