<div class='node-body'><p>WASHINGTON - Hopes by Iran hawks here to get the U.S. Congress to wield the threat of a U.S. military attack on the Islamic Republic on the eve of next week&#39;s critical negotiations on Tehran&#39;s nuclear programme appear to have fallen unexpectedly short.<br />
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