The main Israeli lobbying group in Washington, AIPAC, has started targeting vulnerable Democrats in order to change their mind on the Iran nuclear agreement, an American political commentator in Boston says.
“The foreign lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee [AIPAC], is going into specific districts and trying to pressure Democrats who might be vulnerable in the next election cycle,” said Daniel Patrick Welch, a candid critic of US foreign policy.
“And what they’ll do is paint anyone who doesn’t toe the line as being against Israel, and anti-Semitic etc, etc – the usual line. And they spend a lot of money doing that,” he added.
Welch made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday when asked to comment on a report which says the Obama administration is confronting a tougher-than-expected fight with Congress over the Iran nuclear accord and is struggling to get enough votes to ensure its survival.