Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama swatted away as "foolish" pledges from would-be 2016 presidential candidates to undo the nuclear deal being finalized with Iran if elected.

Obama was responding to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker who vowed last week to pull the U.S. out of a nuclear deal with Iran on day one of his presidency -- that is, if he decides to run and is elected. Walker is near the top of recent polling among potential Republican presidential contenders.

"It would be a foolish approach to take, and, you know, perhaps Mr. Walker, after he's taken some time to bone up on foreign policy, will feel the same way," Obama said in an interview with NPR published Tuesday.

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, also a potential GOP contender, took the same position as Walker on Monday, swearing to "invalidate" the Iran accord as "one of my first actions in office" if he were elected President.

Walker hit back in a Tuesday statement to CNN, knocking Obama for his "failed leadership."

"Americans would be better served by a president who spent more time working with governors and members of Congress rather than attacking them," Walker said.

But Obama said he's confident his successor won't pull the U.S. out of an international agreement with Iran that involves not just the U.S., but five top world powers -- the four other members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/07/politics/obama-republicans-2016-scott-walker-foolish-iran-deal/

thanks for posting

ultimate boogeyman..must be a tough job...all considered.

Long overdue too.

He needs to stop lending those losers his credibility.

TEHRAN — Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iranian hard-liners have been free to take to the streets and object to any form of compromise with the West, and particularly the United States.

But when a conspicuously small group of hard-liners did so on Tuesday morning in front of the Parliament building, holding up placards and shouting slogans against the nuclear framework agreed to last week in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Iranian Interior Ministry condemned the demonstration as illegal, because the protesters had failed to obtain a permit. There were also very few reporters.

It was perhaps the first time that conservatives — in this case mostly young people genuinely disappointed over the compromises Iran has made to reach a nuclear agreement — seemed disconnected from the power structure here.


Analysts say the message from the top is clear: Get with the program. Senior officials, important clerics, lawmakers and Revolutionary Guards commanders, who in the past have reflexively opposed any accommodation with the West, now go out of their way to laud Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his team of negotiators, as well as the government of President Hassan Rouhani.

On Tuesday, Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the highest-ranking commander of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, joined the chorus. “The Iranian nation and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps thank these dear negotiators for their honest attempts and political jihad, and for their resistance on the defined red lines,” the semiofficial Mehr news agency quoted him as saying.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/world/middleeast/irans-establishment-closes-ranks-in-support-of-nuclear-accord.html?_r=0