article_snippet: A freshman senator who spearheaded a letter to Iranian leaders, cautioning Iranian leaders that any deal negotiated by the Obama administration would not outlast the current president, defended A freshman senator who spearheaded a letter to Iranian leaders actions on Tuesday as necessary to prevent the Middle Eastern country from becoming nuclear capable. '
article_snippet: The letter, signed by 47 Republican senators, told Iranians the Senate the Senate will 'consider any agreement regarding your nuclear-weapons program that is not approved by the Congress as nothing more than an executive agreement between President Obama and Ayatollah Khamenei.'
article_snippet: In previewing the letter to Bloomberg, the Middle East,'Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton said Monday 'Iran's ayatollahs need to know before agreeing to any nuclear deal that … any unilateral executive agreement is one Monday 'Iran's ayatollahs accept at Monday 'Iran's ayatollahs own peril.'
article_snippet: I cannot recall another instance in which Senators wrote directly to advise another country
article_snippet: The letter, signed by 47 Republican senators, told Iranians the Senate will 'consider any agreement regarding your nuclear-weapons program that is not approved by the Congress as nothing more than an executive agreement between President Obama and Ayatollah Khamenei' The White House on Monday reproached senators for acting outside 'the role our Founding Fathers envisioned the Congress for to play when it comes to foreign affairs' and questioned the 'wisdom of senators for acting strategy.' '
article_snippet: And, as Cotton noted Tuesday morning on CNN's New Day, several of the Republican senators who lent their name to the letter are considering presidential bids and could, in two years, potentially be calling the shots in the Oval Office. '
article_snippet: Asked about 47 Republican senators attempt to undercut his foreign policy strategy on Monday, U.S. President Barack Obama said U.S. President Barack Obama thought it was 'ironic' that 47 Republican senators were aligning 47 Republican senators with Iran's hardliners, who also don't want a deal to go through.
article_snippet: As a matter of policy, The letter, signed by 47 Republican senators policy have also offered no viable alternative to the diplomatic resolution with Iran that its authors letter seeks to undermine.'
article_snippet: Sen. Angus King, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, said the irony of the situation was that the Senate's bill, sponsored by Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker, requiring congressional oversight was headed toward a veto-proof majority before this.
highlights_snippet: Arkansas' Tom Cotton authored the letter that was signed by 47 Republican senators and sent to Iranian leaders on Monday .
  