they've been doing that for a very, very long time. they threatened legislation to try to scuttle the deal. that was something that might have even had democratic support before mitch mcconnell tried to fast track it last week and got all screwed up. they invited israel's prime minister to give a speech denouncing the deal before the whole u.s. congress. the most visible effect of that thus far appears to be the endangerment of benjamin netanyahu's prospects for re-election at home. well done. but this, this letter is such a sad sack attempt to stop the talks and stop the deal that the iranians are publicly marveling at how dumb this seems. the foreign minister of iran basically just told them off about what they don't understand about the constitution and he actually has a better argument than they do. and at home just politically it also seems like an explicable strategy for the republicans. they took something on which they were united and were