Gov. Walker urges Obama to back off from ‘bad deal’ with Iran

Potential presidential candidate Scott Walker has called on US President Barack Obama not to finalize a bad agreement with Iran over the country’s nuclear program.

“We need to tell the president to back off from a bad deal,” Wisconsin Gov. Walker said at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition summit on Saturday.

The governor’s remark was made after he said earlier this month that he would undo the agreement if he were elected president in 2016.

In response, President Obama had said revoking a nuclear agreement with Iran following his second term in the White House by another president would be “foolish.”

"It would be a foolish approach to take, and, you know, perhaps Mr. Walker, after he's taken some time to bone up on foreign policy, will feel the same way," Obama said.

Obama also warned that the move would make problems in Washington’s relation with its allies and embolden the country’s enemies.

A framework nuclear agreement was reached between Iran and the P5+1 group – the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany – in Switzerland on April 2.

The two sides announced the agreement in a joint statement in the Swiss city of Lausanne. They will work to draw up a final accord by the end of June.

Meanwhile, the Senate is set to begin debate on bipartisan legislation that would give Congress the authority to review any final nuclear deal with Iran.

Sens. Bob Corker and Ben Cardin, who have drafted the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, weighed in on the importance of Congress’s involvement in the ongoing nuclear talks.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the legislation would require the White House to submit any Iran agreement to Congress for review, during which time Congress can hold hearings and ultimately take a vote to approve or disapprove the accord.

The legislation unanimously passed the 19-member Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier in April.