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The Los Angeles Times reports:
Hillary Rodham Clinton made her most forceful defense yet of President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran on Monday, saying that “all bets are off” if Congress were to reject the deal and warning of the potential impact to America’s standing in the world.
"The Europeans, the Russians, the Chinese, they’re going to say, ‘We stuck with the Americans. We agreed with the Americans. We hammered out this agreement. I guess their president can’t make foreign policy.’ That’s a very bad signal to send in a quickly moving and oftentimes dangerous world."
Hillary Clinton at a campaign stop in Manchester, NH
August 10, 2015
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Clinton's words were timely, especially after news from the European Union that France and Germany are already competing to restore commercial ties with Iran.
Last week, French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius was in Tehran where he handed Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani an invitation to visit Paris in November. During the P5+1 negotiations, Fabius pushed the hardest for concessions from Iran. In some ways, his perspective is very close to Clinton's and he has a reputation as one of her admirers.
On the day she announced her candidacy for President, he tweeted.
The message says:
Hillary Clinton, An exceptional woman for a job that requires exceptional qualities. |
Fabius, Clinton, and Rouhani represent a New Realism in foreign policy and the end of the Neo-Conservative Era. That doesn't mean Iran is suddenly an ally but its interests, in some areas, coincide with Western interests and it also has capacity for internal change with a moderate government in power.
Obama will be remembered for leading the world forward whether he convinces Congress or not. It's hard to see that with the very narrow rightwing focus of US commercial media. Here's a much broader view presented by France24's English language channel with "The Debate," an in-depth, intelligent panel discussion show available online.