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Grateful for GOP letter to Iran

In the March 16 Herald, a Your View letter regarding the Republican senators' letter to Iranian officials informing them of "deals" negotiated by the Obama administration without input and approval of Congress could be repealed by the next elected president contains some accuracies, but mostly misses the point of the communication.

The administration is attempting to negotiate a deal with Iran without congressional input (remember, Congress represents us, "the people") or approval. Iran might assume that the president could bind America to this deal, unlike a formal treaty, which must pass through both chambers of Congress as written in our Constitution. The senators' letter to Iran is a formal notification of this truth.

Within his Op-Ed, Michael Gerson corrects the letter writer's assertion that the GOP letter is "unprecedented", citing Democratic "negotiations with Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega in the '80s" and Nancy Pelosi's sit-down with Syria's Bashar al-Assad during the Bush administration, just to name a couple.

I could cite many unprecedented acts by this administration but for the sake of brevity, I'll bite my tongue. I resent this administration's attempt to negotiate with a terrorist Iran which continues to fund and supply numerous terrorist organizations, reneges on previous agreements and commits to destroying our allies.

I especially abhor negotiating a bad "deal" without first receiving input from the citizens through Congress. Whether war veteran Sen. Tom Cotton's letter was addressed to the mullahs in Iran, President Obama or the world doesn't really matter. At the very least, it has raised awareness of this terrible negotiation to the American public and the rest of the world; at most, hopefully, it might have stopped our current president from giving Iran the capability to build a nuclear bomb in 10 years.

For that, I'd like to thank Tom Cotton and his Republican colleagues for trying to protect me, my family, our country and the world.

Tim Hurley

Arlington Heights

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