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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, speaks at an election rally for Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, at Bowman Field November 3, 2014 in Louisville, Kentucky. Aaron P. Bernstein, Getty Images

The Obama administration has harshly denounced the letter that a group of Republican senators sent to Iran's supreme leader regarding nuclear negotiations, but Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, insists the letter should actually help the administration's attempts to negotiate.

"I want the president to negotiate from a position of strength, which means that he needs to be telling them in Iran, 'I've got Congress to deal with,'" Paul said Sunday at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Austin, Texas.

The letter, signed by 47 GOP senators including Paul, warned that without congressional approval, any deal between President Obama and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, could be easily reversed. "The next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen," they wrote, "and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time."

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In an interview Sunday on "Face the Nation," Secretary of State John Kerry told CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan that the letter contained "false information" and was "directly calculated to interfere" with negotiations that conservatives oppose.

Paul, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, insisted Sunday, "There's no one in Washington more against war and more for a negotiated deal than I am. But I want the negotiated deal to be a good deal."

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