Congressman Mike Kelly is expressing cautious optimism about a proposed Iran peace deal memorandum.<\/p>\n
Kelly, who was in Erie, said he credits the Trump administration with taking a tough approach toward Iran during negotiations, but he says he wants to see the agreement fully carried out before believing it will hold.<\/p>\n
\u201cI won’t believe it until I see it,\u201d Kelly said, adding that he remains concerned about whether Iran will follow through on its commitments.<\/p>\n
At the same time, Kelly said he hopes the agreement could eventually help ease pressure on global oil supplies and bring down gas prices for consumers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ll see by the end of the week, is there an agreement, is it solid \u2014 and is it going to go into effect,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cI would hope that it does, I would hope that the Strait is opened up for global use \u2014 because it’ll reduce the pressure on the supply of oil and that will bring prices down, should bring prices down, but we’ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kelly said the timing is especially important as Americans prepare for summer travel.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m really concerned, but as we get toward the 4th of July \u2014 people want to get on the road and get moving,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
A formal signing of the agreement is expected Friday in Geneva, Switzerland. Officials say reopening the Strait of Hormuz and lifting naval blockades would happen within 30 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Congressman Mike Kelly is expressing cautious optimism about a proposed Iran peace deal memorandum. Kelly, who was in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,296,139],"class_list":["post-220251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-local","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}