Prez rips GOP on Iran

Partisan feuding ‘needs to stop’

PRESIDENT OBAMA scolded top GOP officials Saturday for publicly questioning the White House’s integrity on the Iranian nuclear deal and other foreign policy issues.

A seething Obama singled out Sen. John McCain (below r.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (below l.) while in Panama for the Summit of the Americas conference. “It needs to stop,” Obama declared. The President unloaded on McCain, who this week cast Secretary of State Kerry as “delusional” for his interpretation of the nuke agreement.

That McCain would deem Kerry “less trustworthy” than Iran’s supreme leader is “an indication of the degree to which partisanship has crossed all boundaries,” Obama said.

Obama said criticism of the Iranian nuclear deal is understandable.

“But when you start getting to the point where you are actively communicating that the United States government and our secretary of state is somehow spinning presentations in a negotiation with a foreign power, particularly one you say is your enemy, that’s a problem,” he said.

Shortly after Obama took McCain to task, the Arizona senator tweeted his own missive.

“So Pres Obama goes to #Panama, meets with Castro and attacks me — I’m sure Raúl is pleased,” McCain tweeted.

The former GOP presidential candidate later fired off a statement doubling down on his Iran comments. “It is undeniable that the version of the nuclear agreement outlined by the Obama administration is far different from the one described by Iran’s supreme leader,” McCain said.

Meanwhile, Obama accused McConnell of trying to sabotage the U.S.’s push to combat climate change. “We have Mitch McConnell trying to tell the world don’t have confidence in the U.S. government’s abilities to fulfil any climate change pledge that we might make,” he said.