A key Senate Democrat on Tuesday said the P5+1 should have struck a better nuclear deal with Iran, urging Congress to reject the agreement and the Obama administration to assuage US allies by considering exports of US oil to countries that had previously purchased Iranian crude. Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been one of a handful of Democrats to break from President Barack Obama on the Iran deal. In a speech at Seton Hall University in his home state, Menendez said Congress should pass a resolution of disapproval on the nuclear pact, and the Obama administration should renegotiate with Iran for more stringent restrictions on its nuclear program. And as it negotiates, the US should “consider licensing the strategic export of American oil to allied countries struggling with supply because Iranian oil remains off the market,” he said. […]