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President Obama is mounting a full court press to convince members of Congress to support his recent Iran nuclear negotiations deal.

In the past few days, the president and various administration officials have lobbied Democrats to keep enough of them form breaking off and voting against this agreement.

The Hill reported that the president warned his allies that if they don’t speak up, the same people who got the U.S. into the Iraq War could sink the Iran deal, which would lift sanctions against the country in exchange for it scaling back its nuclear program.

“As big of a bully pulpit as I have, it’s not enough,” the president told his supporters. “I can’t carry it by myself.”

“The facts are on our side, but the politics are going to be tough if all of you don’t get involved and get active,” Obama said, adding that he has “never been more certain about a policy decision than this one.”

It’s interesting to note that both Vice President Joseph Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry voted for the war in Iraq.

The challenge was made harder for the president when on Tuesday, Secretary Kerry speaking before a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, then followed by during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday.

Kerry mentioned he had not seen the full side agreements between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding inspection verifications.

While before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Kerry informed the committee that Wendy Sherman, the undersecretary of state, “may have” looked at the side agreements, but could not verify for sure if she read any draft or summary.

Business Insider reported that at both hearings, Kerry contended that the IAEA often entered into highly technical agreements with individual governments whose contents are not made available to other states. In other words, the administration is advocating the secrecy of documents its top diplomats acknowledge they haven’t seen yet.

Members of Congress are alarmed that without knowing what is in the side deals how would they truly know Iran is in compliance with the agreement.

Reports have surfaced that Iran is trying to insist that it collect soil samples at any suspected nuclear site instead of the IAEA, if this becomes it would a huge setback for the administration as it relates to verification.

The president has his work cut out for him, as the Hill reported Republicans are expected to vote en masse to kill the nuclear deal in September, setting up a veto from the president. After that, it will fall to Democrats to make sure that there aren’t two-thirds majorities in each chamber to override the veto.

Still the president has to focus on skeptical Democrats as they know anything that goes wrong with this deal will be laid at their laps as giving Iran nuclear weapons and further expanding Tehran’s influence throughout the region.

This prospect will tough for the president as he doesn’t have a warm relationship with members of his own party.