Americans Dislike Iran Deal

The announcement of a preliminary nuclear deal with Iran – the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – touched a nerve in the U.S. body politic.

A CNN poll finds that a majority of Americans (52 percent) think Congress should reject the deal. Pew finds that just 38 percent support the pact. CBS estimates that 71 percent think Obama could have done better.

Also at issue is whether Congress has the courage to push back on the principal agent of regional instability in the Middle East at a moment when the White House lacks the fortitude to do so.

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One prominent Iran policy analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Jonathan Schanzer, recently likened the Iran agreement to the decision to go into Iraq noting that the decision to move on Baghdad “was informed by poor intelligence, wrong-headed groupthink, and an unrealistic desire to change a dysfunctional Middle East in one bold stroke. As it happens, these are the three main ingredients in Mr. Obama’s Iran deal.”

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