Obama Secures Key Senate Votes to Protect Iran Nuclear Deal 🗳️

Democrats clinched the crucial US Senate votes Tuesday to block passage of a disapproval resolution against the Iran nuclear accord, an outcome that would be a major victory for President Barack Obama against united Republican opposition.<br />The declarations of support by three Democrats, bringing the total to 41, should block those who oppose or might oppose the deal - 54 Republicans and three Democrats - from passing a resolution of disapproval that would require the president to use his veto power.<br />Early on Tuesday, Sen. Joe Manchin announced his opposition to the deal, a surprise "no" vote from a moderate Democrat who had sounded like he favored the pact.<br />The agreement struck by Iran, the US and five world powers in July will provide Iran hundreds of billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions in exchange for a decade of constraints on the country's nuclear program.<br />"This agreement will stand," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, said in a speech Tuesday at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.