USA: Rejecting dead will "garner enormous international sympathy" for Iran, says Obama

US President Barack Obama said that Iran "would garner enormous international sympathy" if the United States rejected the P5+1 nuclear deal, during a webcast with American Jewish community leaders in Washington D.C., Friday, adding that rejection of the deal would "isolate the United States and Israel as the reason for the deal falling through." Obama elaborated, that even without the deal "the sanctions would begin to dissolve, they would not be as effective", arguing that "their economy would begin to improve anyway." Obama was being interviewed by prominent Jewish community leaders Stephen Greenberg and Michael Siegal. The event was intended to address the concerns of the American Jewish community ahead of next month's Congress debates over the passing of the Iranian nuclear deal.