U.S. Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois. Photo: Wiki Commons.

Politico – Senate Republicans are strongly rejecting a White House plea for a delay in a new round of economic sanctions against Iran and are vowing to move forward with additional restrictions over the country’s nuclear weapons program.

One Republican — Sen. Mark Kirk (Ill.) — angrily compared the Obama administration’s appeal to Neville Chamberlain’s “appeasement” of Nazi Germany before World War II.

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