carefully. but i believe based on what i know now this is an important step. reporter: on her left senator bernie sanders, issued a statement hailing the deal as a victory of diplomacy over saber rattling. from the outset the gop field threatened to oppose a weak agreement. lindsey graham all but accused the president of arming an adversary. he s guarantied they re going to become a nuclear nation. this deal locks in their nuclear program. reporter: beyond fear of iran getting the bomb conservatives warn that sing sanctions will make it easier for iran to step up state sponsored terrorism. i think in a negotiation that is bad for the middle east and pad for the world. we know they have been ith the objective of destabilizing the region. we know that when sanctions are lifted they ll have more money to fund those same proxies. it has to be one of the most outrageous decisions that a u.s. president has made in
you try to stop its. i m going to veto it. what the president has done is taken the world s most destabling power, country that s killed hundreds of americans in iraq and guaranteed they re going to become a nuclear nation. instead of dismantling this program, this deal locks in their nuclear program on that deal real quick. i noticed the president said iran is further way from getting nuclear weapons. he didn t say we re stopping them. here s the problem. every sunni nation is going to see this as inevitable outcome. the the worst possible deal would be two things, create a nuclear r arms race in the mideast where sunnis feel threatened. they will. this guaranteed they ll have an industrialize sized nuclear program. they can break out and have a weapon. all arab nations will feel
carefully. but i believe based on what i know now this is an important step. reporter: on her left senator bernie sanders, issued a statement hailing the deal as a victory of diplomacy over saber rattling. from the outset the gop field threatened to oppose a weak agreement. lindsey graham all but accused the president of arming an adversary. he s guarantied they re going to become a nuclear nation. this deal locks in their nuclear program. reporter: beyond fear of iran getting the bomb conservatives warn that sing sanctions will make it easier for iran to step up state sponsored terrorism. i think in a negotiation that is bad for the middle east and pad for the world. we know they have been funding proxies with the objective of destabilizing the region. we know that when sanctions are lifted they ll have more money to fund those same proxies. it has to be one of the most outrageous decisions that a u.s. president has made in relationship to foreign policy.
necessarily be immediate. iran would gain access to more than $100 billion in frozen assets. also the west would lift a host of economic sanctions. for now it is up to the administration to sell this to a very skeptical congress. i am confident that people will not choose to turn their back on the rest of the international community on this opportunity to change a relationship, and this opportunity which is the only viable alternative, to be able to guarranty there is a peaceful nuclear program and that they will not succeed or choose to get a weapon. i think this is such a bad deal it would be hard to muster 20 votes. what the president has done, he has taken the world s most destablizing power one of our chief antagonists a country that killed hundreds of americans in iraq and guaranteed they will become a nuclear nation. instead of dismantling this program this deal locks in their nuclear program.