US President Barack Obama is "embarrassed" by the Republicans who signed letter discussing Iran's nuclear program.
"Their basic argument is - don't negotiate with our president because you can't trust him to stick to the agreement. That's almost unprecedented," Obama said in an interview with Weiss media.
An open letter to Iran's religious leader Ayatollah Khamenei, published earlier this month, was signed by 47 US Republican senators, including several potential 2016 presidential candidates.
In that letter, they warned Khamenei that after Obama steps down from the presidency in 2017, the next president could "with one stroke of a pen" cancel any agreement, and some future US congresses could change the terms of that agreement at any time.
A new round of negotiations between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will take place on March 15 in Lausanne.
With the March deadline for a deal, negotiators are frantically trying to strike a deal that would curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for easing Western sanctions on Iran.
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