Kerry ‘Profoundly Disagrees’ With Schumer, Engel on Iran

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday he “profoundly disagrees” with the reasoning behind decisions by two prominent Democratic lawmakers to vote against the nuclear deal he negotiated with Iran

Secretary of State John Kerry during a news conference at the State Department in Washington on Monday, July 27, 2015, on the 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

HANOI, Vietnam—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday he “profoundly disagrees” with the reasoning behind decisions by two prominent Democratic lawmakers to vote against the nuclear deal he negotiated with Iran.

Speaking in the Vietnamese capital, Kerry said the facts do not bear out the arguments made by the Senate’s No. 3 Democrat Chuck Schumer, and the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Eliot Engel.

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