article_snippet.sent: Just last month, in an attempt to head off such an agreement, House Speaker John Boehner invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to preemptively blast Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before Congress, and 47 senators sent a letter to the Iranian leadership warning 47 senators away from a deal.
article_snippet.sent: The most misleading assertion, despite universal rejection by experts, is that the negotiations' objective at the outset was the total elimination of any nuclear program in Iran.
article_snippet.sent: That is the position of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acolytes in Congress.
article_snippet.sent: But that is not and never was the objective.
article_snippet.sent: If it had been, there would have been no Iranian team at the negotiating table.
article_snippet.sent: What's more, the rhetoric of some members of Congress has implied that the negotiations have been between only the United States and Iran (i.e., the 47 senators' letter warning that a deal might be killed by Congress or a future president).
article_snippet.sent: But the issue is not suited for a treaty.
article_snippet.sent: But any agreement with Iran will not be so balanced.  
article_snippet.sent: As important as these issues are, and these issues are must indeed be addressed, these issues are are unrelated to the most important aim of a nuclear deal: preventing a nuclear Iran.  
article_snippet.sent: To include these issues are in the negotiations would be a poison pill.