Press TV - US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker says President Donald Trump is ready to pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear agreement next month. If nothing changes between now and May 12, the president is absolutely going to withdraw from the agreement, the Republican senator from Tennessee said on Wednesday....

Press TV - USSenate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker says that progress is being made with Democratic lawmakers in Congress, as well as European allies, on legislation to fix the Iran nuclear deal without violating its terms. Weve gotten to a really good place; now the question is can we get there fully, Corker told reporters ...

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 Post | Elizabeth Saunders: Last week began with a bang: Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a leading GOP voice on foreign policy, madestartling commentsdisparaging President Trump, particularly his handling of foreign policy. Midweek, the world awaited Trumps decision about the Iran nuclear ...

Press TV - The White House press secretary escalates the feud between her boss, US President Donald Trump, and a top Republican opposing him on foreign policy, particularly the administrations approach towards the Iran nuclear deal. Sarah Huckabee Sanders hammered the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, at a briefing ...

Press TV - US President Donald Trump has blamed the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee over the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. In the latest in a war of words with Tennessee Senator Bob Corker on Sunday, the president accused him of being responsible for the nuclear deal between Tehran and members of the ...

Press TV - A sanctions bill targeting Iran and Russia has hit a new hiccup in US Congress, says the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Tennessee Republican Senator Bob Corker told reporters in Washington, DC, Wednesday that a political issue has risen ahead of the measure. Last week, a procedural problem in the lower chamber ...

Reuters- The chair of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said that abrupt rejection of the Iran nuclear deal by the incoming Trump administration could create "a crisis" and that he did not expect such an approach. "To tear it up on the front end, in my opinion, is not going to happen. Instead, we will begin to radically enforce it," Senator ...

US Republican Senator Bob Corker has called on Congress to reject the nuclear agreement with Iran. Corker, the influential chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, saidthe agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group of nations - the US, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany - will not be "in our national interests." "It is Congresss responsibility ...

Republican US Senator Bob Corker is seeking to extend an Iran sanctions law, despite opposition from the Obama administration, which considers any such move a violation of the nuclear agreement. Corker, chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on Wednesday that if Congress does not extend the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA), which expires ...

The Republican chorus gets ever louder: Walk away from an Iran nuclear deal. But of course there is a deal in place, an interim one, much derided by that same chorus when it was concluded in November 2013. At the time, Bob Corker of the Senate Foreign Relations committee lambasted the accord as requiring no sacrifice on their part whatsoever. Now ...

The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Thursday he did not see the continuation of Iran nuclear talks as a problem for U.S. lawmakers, who have the opportunity to vote on a deal after one is reached. "I'm very happy that we're not rushing to a place and taking shortcuts on the remaining issues that are left. That is ...

With an accord potentially days away, the typically restrained Foreign Relations committee head and other critics get more vocal. Days away from a potential nuclear deal with Iran, senior Republican senators are plotting a strategy to undermine the multilateral accord just as the Obama administration tries to sell it to a skeptical Congress. For ...

Congress is sharpening its knives with just one week to go before the June 30 deadline for a nuclear deal with Iran. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds a hearing June 25 on "Evaluating Key Components of a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action With Iran." The hearing comes as Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., this week urged the Barack Obama administration ...

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Wednesday that he had urged Secretary of State John F. Kerry to ignore a looming deadline for nuclear negotiations with Iran if thats what it takes to secure a more ironclad deal. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), a key figure in brokering a compromise bill acceptable to the White House and congressional ...

Republican Senator Bob Corker, who has called on President Barack Obama to stop the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran, has been motivated by Israel, says political commentator Brandon Martinez. In a letter on Monday, Corker asked Obama to pause and consider rethinking the entire approach toward Iran with regard to a possible deal with the Islamic ...

Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) is urging President Obama to walk away from negotiations over Irans nuclear program. It is breathtaking to see how far from your original goals and statements the P5+1 have come during negotiations with Iran, Corker said Monday in a letter to the president, referring to the group of ...

(Reuters) - U.S. PresidentBarackObamasaid on Friday he does not see proposed legislation in Congress derailing negotiations withIranon its nuclear program, calling the bill allowing Congress to review any deal a "reasonable compromise" that he planned to sign. In a news conference at the White House, Obama said Senate Foreign Relations Committee ...

(Reuters) - U.S. senators scrambled to shore up bipartisan support for a controversialIran nuclear bill before a committee meeting on Tuesday that could determine whether the legislation will survive President Barack Obama's promised veto. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to debate and vote on Tuesday afternoon on the measure ...

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama called Republican Senator Bob Corker on Wednesday to discuss the framework agreement reached last week to contain Iran's nuclear ambitions, the White House said. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama administration officials have been talking to members of Congress from both parties about the terms of the ...