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The Senate Should Debate Any New Iran Deal
(Wall Street Journal) Joe Lieberman - Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has said that when talks on restarting the nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 begin, Tehran would demand assurances that "Washington will not renege on the deal again." The only way to assure that is for President Biden to submit an agreement with Iran to the Senate as a treaty, needing 67 votes to be ratified, which would require support from members of both political parties. The Constitution doesn't require minor international agreements to receive Senate approval, but the JCPOA covers some of the most important strategic security threats that the U.S. is facing and imposes multiyear obligations on the signatory countries. The writer, a former U.S. senator (1989-2013), is chairman of United Against Nuclear Iran.