The Corker Letter
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The new chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Corker, is off to a promising start with his letter to President Obama laying down a marker in respect of the United Nations. The Volunteer State Republican seeks clarification as to whether the President is going to take the Iran deal to the United Nations Security Council prior to the measure going to the Senate. It’s a good question to put to the president.
A warning that Iran could try to bind America via the Security Council was raised Thursday by the editor of the Sun in a New York Post column. For Mr. Obama’s pact with Iran is emerging from negotiations involving all five of the Security Council’s permanent members (plus Germany). The mullahs tipped their hand on this when they replied to a letter from 47 Republican senators, led by Thos. Cotton of Arkansas.
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