Obama set to address Iran deal in university speech

5 August 2015, 6:15 pm

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In the coming minutes, President Barack Obama is set to take the stage at American University in Washington, DC, for a speech the White House says will address the Iran nuclear deal.

In the address, the president will frame Congress’s polarizing debate over the deal as “the most consequential” since lawmakers in 2002 backed George W. Bush’s drive to war, according to a White House official.

Obama has long argued that vote represented a grave mistake that pushed the United States into eight blood-soaked years of unnecessary conflict.

“He will point out that the same people who supported war in Iraq are opposing diplomacy with Iran, and that it would be an historic mistake to squander this opportunity,” the official said, according to AFP.