President Barack Obama, seeking to amplify his campaign to garner congressional support for the Iran nuclear deal, declared that the decision facing lawmakers next month is the most significant since Congress voted to invade Iraq more than a decade ago.
The 2002 Iraq vote, which spawned foreign policy headaches for the past two administrations, was driven by war-hungry politicians, Obama claimed. He said that opponents of his agreement with Iran were deploying similar arguments ahead of a September vote in Congress on the agreement.
With a little more than a month before the congressional review period expires, the administration has launched an aggressive lobbying effort to convince Democrats of the deal's merits. They've largely written off trying to convince Republicans, many of whom denounced the negotiations that led to the accord.
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