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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Ali Harb

As Iran nuclear talks enter final stretch, opposition grows in US

United States Senator Bob Menendez, a key Democrat, has rejected reviving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in its current format [File: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images via AFP]

Washington, DC – United States Senator Bob Menendez started an hour-long presentation on the Senate floor last week with a poster featuring a green, white and red bomb – the colours of the Iranian flag.

Over the next 60 minutes, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee argued tirelessly against reviving the Iran nuclear deal, warning that the curbs the pact would impose on what he called Tehran’s “dangerously and rapidly escalating nuclear programme” are not enough.

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