Following our report about Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the hiding on the new deal reached with Iran, her inner circle in Clintonland now say she favors giving diplomacy with Iran a chance to work but has lingering worries about the country making good on its pledges in the recent interim deal to freeze its nuclear program, as well as its support of global terrorism and the Bashar Assad regime in Syria, a source familiar with her thinking told Politico’s Maggie Haberman.

“In the minds of Clinton allies, it should be clear where she stands: She backs the diplomatic efforts, and they note she sent her top aide, Jake Sullivan, to Oman at the initiation of talks in 2011,” Haberman writes. “The allies say she was closely involved in the sanctions that paved the way toward a deal, but that she’s also not jumping in to declare the job is finished. The deal is a more intrusive approach to curbing Iran’s nuclear development than the efforts that preceded it, and Clinton continues to have lingering concerns about a nation that has not made good in the past doing so this time around, the allies say. She has her eyes wide open, the allies argue, and has a record of muscularity against Iran, pre-dating her time at State, that speaks to it.”

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Another potential New Yorker Presidential candidate, Governor Andrew Cuomo–told Politicker, Tuesday, he was “proud” to sign into law the Iran Divestment Act, which was designed to further economically isolate Iran, but also didn’t feel the White House’s deal undermined the his work on the matter.

“He declined to elaborate,” Politicker reporter Colin Campbell writes.

(Jacob Kornbluh – YWN)