Selling Congress, and the Media, on the Iran Deal

Since his first campaign for the White House, President Obama has promised to use the bargaining table instead of the battlefield. The President has just ended a news conference at the White House about the nuclear dealwith Iran.

He faced reporters to defend the agreement between Iran, the US and five other world powers, framing the deal as a complex one that achieves the ultimate priority of preventing Iran from developing a bomb and he warned that the alternative was unimaginably worse. David Rothkopf is CEO and Editor of Foreign Policy magazine and the author of National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear.