The House on Friday voted against approving the Iran nuclear agreement, as congressional Republicans sought to emphasize their united opposition to the deal, a centerpiece of President Barack Obama ’s foreign policy agenda. The 269-162 vote was aimed less at blocking the Iran deal, which already has enough support to be implemented, and more at laying the groundwork for challenges to the deal in coming years. Republicans had earlier hoped to undercut the deal by voting for a disapproval resolution, but those hopes vanished when Senate Democrats lined up enough support to block a disapproval-resolution vote on Thursday. Democrats in both chambers had also gathered enough support to sustain a veto had a disapproval resolution made it to the president’s desk. “This deal is far worse than anything I could have imagined,” said House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio.) “Our fight to stop this bad deal frankly is just […]