Caption/Description: Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chairman Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., center, flanked by the committee's ranking member Sen. Robert Menendez, D-NJ., right, and Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 11, 2015WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Bob Corker expressed skepticism Tuesday about the nuclear deal the United States and other Western powers have reached with Iran and promised "a vigorous review" of the agreement in Congress in the coming days.
"I want to read the agreement in detail and fully understand it, but I begin from a place of deep skepticism that the deal actually meets the goal of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon," said Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Maryville, also raised questions about the Iran deal.
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