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Rice declares opposition to Iran nuke deal Cites security concerns for U.S., says a better deal is possible By c h r i st i a n araos U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice (DGarden City) voiced opposition to the Iran nuclear deal in an editorial published Monday in the 5 Towns Jewish Times newspaper. “President Obama entered into negotiations with Iran because he is a president interested in peace, in Israel’s security, and in avoiding the human and financial sacrifices of another American war in the Middle East,” Rice wrote in the op-ed, which was published to the publication’s website. “I share these goals, and I genuinely believe the President sees this deal as the best chance of achieving them. But I do not.” Rice’s rejection comes less than a week after nine local Democrats — led by North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth — signed a letter to Rice, U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (D-Huntington) and Democratic U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand
urging them to reject the proposal, citing opposition from local residents and their own evaluation of the agreement. A spokesman from Rice’s office said the local legislators’ letter had an effect in shaping Rice’s opinion. “It was a factor like the hundreds of phone calls we received,” Rice’s spokesman Coleman Lamb, said. “Those are leaders whose opinions she’s certainly interested in.” The letter urged the representatives to vote against the bill citing security concerns in the U.S., Barry Berkowitz’s car crashed a half mile east of the Great Neck train station. Israel and the Middle East. Rice agreed with the local Democrats’ reasoning in her own opinion. “Iranian nuclear ambition isn’t the nation’s only irresponsible agenda. Iran wants international legitimacy,” she wrote. “I’m bothered that we seem poised to grant such legitimacy without requiring Iranian report, Berkowitz was identilearned. By n o a h concessions on its sponsorship of fied by his wife, who issued a Barry Berkowitz apparM a n s K a r terror.” ently lost control of his vehicle letter to the editor published in “I’m unwilling to help ecoThe husband of Great Neck around 9 p.m. and crashed this week’s Great Neck News Continued on Page 39 school board President Bar- through a fence, two barriers thanking rescue workers who bara Berkowitz was hospital- and a handrail, stopping on a assisted him. In the letter, Berkowitz ized Saturday night after he metal staircase next to an encrashed his car three feet from bankment near the tracks, ac- said her husband had “suffered the westbound track of the cording to Great Neck Vigilant a medical incident which resulted in him driving though a LIRR near the Great Neck train Fire Department report. Though unnamed in the Continued on Page 39 station, Blank Slate Media has
Ed Board prez’s husband survives crash near LIRR
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