The Zionist lobby in the United States is using its tremendous influence in Congress to place Israel�s interest ahead of America�s, including launching more conflicts in the Middle East and trying to derail any nuclear agreement with Iran, a political commentator in Los Angeles says.

�You�ve got an Israeli-occupied US Congress that had pushed for the Iraq war for Israel,� said James Morris, editor of America-hijacked.com, a blog charting the influence of the Jewish lobby.

�And those same Israel-first Jewish neoconservative want a war with Iran and the way they think they can get that done is by derailing the Iran deal with their proxies in the US Congress,� Morris told Press TV on Wednesday.

�They�re nothing but traitors to America, pushing another war for Israel vs. Iran like they did with Iraq,� he added.

Iran and the P5+1 group -- the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany �� reached a conclusion on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on July 14 in the Austrian capital of Vienna following days of intensive talks over Tehran�s nuclear program.

The conclusion of the Iran nuclear talks has come under heavy criticism from Israel and from Republicans in Congress, which could vote to reject it; though it is unlikely�they would get enough votes to override a presidential veto.

Morris said US President Barack Obama was �accurate� and �spot on� when he compared on Tuesday opponents of Iran�s nuclear conclusion with war-mongering politicians in Washington �who were so quick to go to war in Iraq� in 2003.

Obama made the remarks at the 116th national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at the David Lawrence Convention Center�in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

�In the debate over this deal, we�re hearing the echoes of some of the same policies and mindset that failed us in the past,� Obama said. �Some of the same politicians and pundits that are so quick to reject the possibility of a diplomatic solution to Iran�s nuclear program are the same folks who were so quick to go to war in Iraq, and said it would take a few months.�

By Press TV