Joe Biden to Jewish Leaders: 'Read My Lips' on Iran Deal
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks as he meets with Jewish community leaders at the David Posnack Jewish Community Center to discuss the nuclear deal reached with Iran on September 3, 2015 in Davie, Florida.
Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesOne day after President Barack Obama appeared to have secured enough official commitments in Congress to prevent the Iran nuclear accord from being derailed, Vice President Joe Biden continued to defend the deal in appearances before Jewish audiences.
Biden told Jewish leaders gathered Thursday morning at the David Posnack Jewish Community Center in Davie, Florida, that he had been “sort of the skeptic in the administration” who needed convincing before buying into the deal. But the former head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said he now believes it will make the U.S. and Israel safer, not weaker.