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ByEricaWernerandDeb Riechmann The Associated Press WASHINGTON Debate on the Iran nuclear deal morphed into full-blown political spectacle Wednes- day as Donald Trump and Ted Cruz held a rally to de- nounce it, Hillary Clinton gave a speech to praise it and congressional Republi- cans turned on each other angrily as they grasped for a last-ditch play to stop it. The maneuvering and speechifying did little to change the reality: Barring unlikely success of an elev- enth-hour gambit by the House, the international accord aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear program in exchange for relief from eco- nomic sanctions will move ahead. Even if Congress suc- ceeds in passing legislation aimed at undermining it by next week's deadline, Presi- dent Barack Obama would veto such a measure and mi- nority Democrats command enough votestosustainhim. "Never ever, ever in my life have I seen a deal so in- competently negotiated as our deal with Iran," Trump told the crowd. "We are led by very, very stupid people. We cannot let it continue." The congressional resolu- tion, on its own, wouldn't re- verse a multi-country agree- ment already blessed by the UnitedNations.Avoteofdis- approval,however,couldsig- nal Congress' readiness to introduce new sanctions at the risk of causing Tehran — and other governments — to abandon the accord and blametheU.S.forthefailure. NUCLEAR DEAL By Mary Clare Jalonick and Bradley Klapper The Associated Press WASHINGTON The United States is prepared to in- crease the number of refu- gees it resettles by at least 5,000 next year as Euro- pean countries struggle to accommodate tens of thou- sands of refugees from the Middle East and Africa. Two officials and a con- gressional aide said that Secretary of State John Kerry told members of Con- gress in a private meeting Wednesday that the United States will boost its world- widequotaforresettlingref- ugees from 70,000 to 75,000 next year, and that num- ber could rise. A fraction of those would be from Syria. Kerry said after the meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee that the U.S. would increase the number of ref- ugees it is willing to take in, but he did not give a spe- cific number. "We are looking hard at the number that we can specifically manage with respect to the crisis in Syria and Europe," he said. "That's being vetted fully right now." The officials and the congressional aide spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not au- thorized to discuss the pri- vate meeting on the record. Shortly after Kerry's meeting, Sen. John Mc- Cain, R-Ariz., went to the Senate floor to urge stron- ger leadership from Pres- ident Barack Obama on stemming violence in the Middle East and North Af- rica. He stood next to an en- larged, close-up photo of the dead body of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, a Syrian boy who drowned along with his 5-year-old brother and mother when their small rubber boat capsized as it headed for Greece. "This image has haunted the world," McCain said. "But what should haunt us even more than the horror unfolding before our eyes is the thought that the United States will continue to do nothing meaningful about it." White House press secre- tary Josh Earnest said Tues- day that the Obama admin- istration has been looking at a "range of approaches" for assisting U.S. allies with 340,000 people freshly ar- rived from the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Many are fleeing parts of Iraq that are under the Islamic State group's control. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, Kerry's predeces- sor at the State Depart- ment, called for an "emer- gency global gathering" at the U.N. General Assembly meeting this month, where countries could pledge aid money and to accept some of the migrants. Germany is bracing for some 800,000 asylum seek- ers this year. Throughout Syria's 4½-year civil war, the U.S. has accepted only about 1,500 Syrians — a tiny percentage of the 11.6 million people who have been chased out of the country or uprooted from their homes. Beyond Syrians, the ad- ministration wants to in- crease the number of Afri- cans coming to the United States next year, according to a senior U.S. official in- volved in the process. Senate Judiciary Chair- man Charles Grassley, R- Iowa, attended the meeting with Kerry and said he was concerned that the admin- istration plans "opening the floodgates and using emergency authority to go above what they proposed to Congress in today's con- sultation." Grassley urged wealthy Arab states to take in Syr- ian refugees. Some, like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have been criticized for not do- ing so. Currently, the top three groups of people resettled by the U.S. are Burmese, Iraqis and Somalis. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, the U.S. accepted more than a million refu- gees from Vietnam, Cam- bodia and Laos. In more recent years the U.S. has taken in large numbers of Muslim Kosovar Albanians and refugees from Iraq. MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA Officials:UStoincreasenumberofrefugees SUSANWALSH—THEASSOCIATED PRESS Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, speaks with fellow Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, during a rally opposing the Iran nuclear deal outside the Capitol in Washington, on Wednesday. Presidential candidates duel on Iran PETROS GIANNAKOURIS — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An Afghan man prays as he arrives with others from Turkey to Lesbos island, Greece, on a dinghy Wednesday. The head of the European Union's executive says 22of the member states should be forced to accept another 120,000people in need of international protection who have come toward the continent at high risk through Greece, Italy and Hungary. By Cara Anna The Associated Press NEW YORK Human Rights Watch is accusing the Su- danese military of another mass rape in Darfur. Members of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces raped at least 60 women in the country's troubled western region, after tak- ing over the town of Golo in January, according to a new report by the rights group released Wednes- day. It says many women were attacked in a hospi- tal where people had taken shelter. "Many of the women were gang raped, often in front of community mem- bers who were forced to watch," the report says. "Some of those who re- sisted were killed. The naked bodies of many dead women were later discovered in the streets; other women were burned alive." Human Rights Watch interviewed 23 people who were in the village or neigh- boring villages at the time. "My father was defend- ing us so that we would not be raped and he was beaten to death," resident Nur al- Huda said in the report. "After they killed my father they raped the three of us. Me and my two sisters." Earlier this year, Human Rights Watch reported on the mass rape in Octo- ber of at least 221 women and girls in the village of Tabit. The attack added to the growing friction be- tween the U.N., which has not been allowed to inves- tigate, and Sudan, which has said its own investi- gation found not "a single case of rape." The new report also de- scribes a range of killing, looting and torture of civil- ians by the Rapid Support Forces during two major counterinsurgency cam- paigns over the past two years in Darfur, where it deployed last year. Sudan's vast western re- gion of Darfur dissolved into violence among rebel groups in 2003. More than 300,000 people have been killed in the conflict. The U.N. says nearly half a mil- lion were displaced last year alone, the most in a decade. A U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force of 17,000-plus troops and po- lice has a mandate to de- ter violence, among other duties, but its presence is increasingly fragile af- ter President Omar al- Bashir last year called for an exit strategy. Al-Bashir is wanted by the Interna- tional Criminal Court on charges of genocide and war crimes for atrocities linked to the Darfur fight- ing. Human Rights Watch says it met this month with Sudan's incoming U.N. am- bassador, Omer Dahab Fadl Mohemed, about the new report's findings. Sudanese officials in Khartoum and at the country's U.N. mis- sion did not respond to a request for comment. The report is based on interviews with 151 people who fled to Chad and 61 people in Darfur. The inter- views included five defec- tors from Sudanese forces who said they saw rapes and other violence by fol- low soldiers. Human Rights Watch is calling on Sudan to dis- band the Rapid Support Forces and hold perpe- trators accountable. 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