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The Obama administration may have worked out a nuclear deal with Iran, but the fight isn't over yet.

While Iranians took to the streets of Tehran to celebrate the deal, it ignited a new political battle between President Barack Obama and critics of the deal.

"It may be the worst diplomatic agreement in the history of the United States," Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said.

Cotton told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program the deal paves the way for Iran to develop a nuclear bomb, while giving them "tens of billions of dollars in sanctions relief, even lifting the arms embargo at a time when they're destabilizing the entire Middle East."

"The American people will repudiate this and I believe Congress will kill the deal," he said.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., agreed, saying, "It looks like they made a worse deal than even we had feared."

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The agreement purportedly lays out a plan to limit Iran's nuclear capabilities, for now.

Supporters say Iran agreed to cut back most of its nuclear activities for the next 10 years and submit to "managed" international inspections. In return, the United States and its allies will lift the crippling sanctions on Iran's economy.

But critics say it's a very good deal for the Iranians and a very bad deal for America and the world because it can't be verified or enforced.

Iran hasn't agreed to anytime, anywhere inspections and is not dismantling its nuclear program. On the contrary, the deal leaves its nuclear facilities pretty much intact.

Many say the regime will likely use the financial windfall to fund its terror proxies throughout the region.

"So what's the alternative?" Secretary of State John Kerry asked. "The alternative is to what, go to war immediately? Bomb them? Sanction them further? Well wait, you can't sanction them further!"

The Senate now has 60 days to review the deal and Republicans seem unified in their opposition.

"Ending Iran's nuclear program was supposed to be the point of these talks in the first place," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said. "What's already clear about this agreement is that it will not achieve -- or even come close to achieving -- that original purpose."

Israel continues to voice its opposition to the agreement.

"Israel is not be bound by this deal with Iran because Iran continues to seek our destruction," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. "We will always defend ourselves."

Meanwhile, the White House assured Netanyahu the United States will continue to support Israel.

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"Israel is not bound by this deal with Iran because Iran continues to seek our destruction. We will always defend ourselves." –Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

(Vienna, Austria)—Iran and the P5+1 nations on Tuesday reached a final nuclear deal whose details are still emerging. (Photo via TheHill.com)

According to reports, in exchange for the lifting international oil and financial sanctions on Iran, the deal restricts the amount of nuclear fuel that Iran can keep in its stockpile for 15 years, requires Iran to reduce its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by 98 percent, and reduces the number of centrifuges spinning at Iran's enrichment center at Natanz by two-thirds. But American officials "acknowledged that after the first decade [of the deal], the breakout time [for an Iranian nuclear weapon] would begin to shrink," the New York Times reported.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said "all sanctions will be lifted," according to Press TV.

"This is a pitiful chapter in Western diplomacy that I think will rank right up with poor Mr. [Neville] Chamberlain stopping at the top of the stairs at that plane and waiving a sheet of paper, and thinking that somehow ink on paper would stop the ravenous appetite of a madman like Hitler," Gary Bauer, head of Christians United for Israel's (CUFI) new Action Fund and an official in former president Ronald Reagan's administration, told reporters at CUFI's Washington Summit before the deal was reached. "We're facing the same kind of hatred, the same kind of ideology that is not only anti-Israel, it's anti-Semitic, and the idea that the mullahs of Iran would sign anything that the West could rely on is I think outlandish."

President Barack Obama said the U.S. and the international community "have achieved something that decades of animosity has not." But the Iran deal is expected to receive a stiff challenge from Congress, where it can now be reviewed for 60 days because negotiations went past July 9.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, "I will refer later to the details of the agreement, but before that, I would like to say here and now—when you are willing to make an agreement at any cost, this is the result."

"From the initial reports we can already conclude that this agreement is an historic mistake for the world," he said. "Far-reaching concessions have been made in all areas that were supposed to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons capability. In addition, Iran will receive hundreds of billions of dollars with which it can fuel its terror machine and its expansion and aggression throughout the Middle East and across the globe. One cannot prevent an agreement when the negotiators are willing to make more and more concessions to those who, even during the talks, keep chanting, ‘Death to America.'"

"I say to all the leaders in Israel, it is time to put petty politics aside and unite behind this most fateful issue to the future and security of the State of Israel," added Netanyahu.

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