Press TV- A United States Republican Senator who has been working on anti-Iran legislation is attempting to win the partnership of a senior Democratic colleague, seemingly sidelining a junior fellow Republican known for his belligerent stance on Iran. Senator Bob Corker (R-TN), who is the chairman of the Senates Foreign Relations Committee, ...

Washington Examiner - Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., believes department chiefs who disagree with President Trump and are unable to carry out his new Iran strategy should consider resigning from their posts, according to a report Monday. "When you're a Cabinet member, when you're a senior adviser in the White House, and the president is right, you should ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats on Wednesday blocked the Senate's first spending bill of the year in a last-minute fight over a Republican effort to undercut the Iran nuclear deal and scuttle U.S. plans to buy Iranian "heavy water." Still seething over last year's international pact, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., offered an amendment to the energy and water ...

As the deadline to reach a final agreement with Iran over its nuclear program rapidly approaches, Sen. Tom Cotton said the threat of military action should "remain an option" to ensure a strong deal. "It's never the preferred choice, but military force does have to remain an option if our diplomacy is going to be credible," Cotton, R-Ark., told ...

TEHRAN, May 25 (MNA) An Iranian law student has replied Sen. Cottons tweets about Irans Zarif calling for a debate over US Constitution, arguing that previous legal cases show Cottons claims are baseless. Following US Senator Tom Cotton's late April tweets addressing Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif trying to challenge him in a debate ...

Republican leaders are preparing to clamp down on Sen. Tom Cottons efforts to derail a bipartisan compromise on legislation giving Congress review power over a nuclear deal with Iran, clearing the way for it to be passed this week. The Senate is set to resume work Monday on the long-considered bill, but lawmakers in both parties agree debate on ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Somebody should tell US Republican Senator Tom Cotton that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has served his military service in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) which is known to be the US Number one enemy throughout the world. If Zarif stands firmly in the nuclear negotiations with the western powers, it is due ...

Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif did not take kindly to Sen. Tom Cotton's (R-Arkansas) aggressive tweets challenging him to a debate. On Thursday, Zarif wrote on Twitter that Cotton had attacked him with "macho personal smear." The Iranian official also suggested Cotton should be concerned about the "peace" of his son Gabriel,who was born Monday ...

Freshman Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who perturbed the Obama administration when he got 46 colleagues to sign on to an open letter advising Tehran of Congress legitimate role in any nuclear agreement, is not done facing off with Iran. In New York for the U.N. Nonproliferation Treaty Conference, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said at a New York ...

A freshman Republican senator from Arkansas has called on US President Barack Obama not to take the military option off the table while the P5+1 group of countries are negotiating with Iran over its nuclear energy program. Iran and the P5+1 group the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany reached a framework understanding in the Swiss ...

Republican opponentsof a framework agreement with Iran received millions in campaign donations in 2014 from pro-Israel billionaires and other influential American donors, according to a report. Republicans, now in control of both chambers of US Congress, are more ardently pro-Israel than ever before as they collected more money during the 2014 election ...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who has emerged as a key critic of the Obama administration's moves to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, vowed Friday to keep a framework agreement from materializing. "I'm going to do everything I can to stop these terms from becoming a final deal," Cotton said Friday onCNN's "The Lead,"noting it is unclear when the deal ...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said Congress should "act immediately" on Iran sanctions, after the State Department announced Tuesday it would need to extend for one day the talks on the framework of a nuclear agreement. The best solution is walk away from the nuclear negotiations now and return to a position of strength," said Cotton in a statement just ...

[caption id="attachment_152042" align="alignright" width="209"] President Barack Obama speaks at the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Summit, Feb. 19, 2015, at the State Department in Washington.[/caption] WASHINGTONNo matter what happens with the negotiations over curbing Irans nuclear program, count on the issue being front and center during ...

[caption id="attachment_154701" align="alignright" width="199"] FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2014 file photo, then-Sen.-elect Tom Cotton, R-Ark. waves at his election watch party in North Little Rock, Ark., after defeating incumbent Sen.[/caption] The open letter from Senator Tom Cotton and 46 other Republican senators to the leadership of Iran, whicheven ...

[caption id="attachment_154809" align="alignright" width="209"] U.S Sen. Tom Cotton[/caption] US Senator Tom Cotton has slammed Washington for not significantly increasing the US military spending to confront an increasingly dangerous world that is being threatened by a new Adolf Hitler. Cotton reportedly received one million dollars from the ...

[caption id="attachment_154809" align="alignright" width="209"] U.S Sen. Tom Cotton[/caption] Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) stood by his decision Sunday tosend a letteron a burgeoning nuclear deal directly to Iranian leaders. He insisted on Face the Nation that Irans leaders need to hear the message loud and clear that an Obama-brokered deal might not ...

[caption id="attachment_154809" align="alignright" width="214"] U.S Sen. Tom Cotton[/caption] WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said on CBS "Face the Nation" on Sunday that he had no regrets at all over the letter he orchestrated to be sent to Iranian ayatollahs warning them that any deal struck with the Obama administration over their countrys ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has denounced a Republican letter to Iran as an unprecedented and calculated attempt to interfere with nuclear talks underway between Tehran and the P5+1 group, saying he will not apologize for the letter when negotiations resume on Monday morning. A group of 47 Republican senators ignored protocol and sent an open ...

[caption id="attachment_154843" align="alignright" width="223"] Sen. Tom Cotton said he'd "welcome" presidential candidates -- including Hillary Clinton -- to sign a controversial letter to Iran .[/caption] The leader or Iran and Secretary of State John Kerry found one thing in common Thursday: both condemned the letter 47 Republican senators sent ...