As negotiations drag on and wariness in Congress grows, a key opponent of the administration’s Iran policy said he thinks there are enough votes to quash a bad deal.

State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters Wednesday that “obviously, difficult issues, as we discussed yesterday and the day before, remain.”

“They’re trying to surmount those issues and work towards a comprehensive agreement,” he said. “But we’re not there yet.”

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) told CNN that he thinks the P5+1 negotiators in Vienna are headed for “a good bad deal.”

“And what’s the problem with that? The problem with that is what the administration said at the beginning that I totally embrace is that no deal is better than a bad deal. I don’t think there’s such a thing as a good bad deal. It’s either a good deal or a bad deal,” Menendez said...

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